The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC, announced today that one of its Asian elephants, Nhi Linh (pronounced NEE-lin), is pregnant and could give birth to the first baby calf born at the ...

Indonesia recently welcomed its first locally born giant panda cub as part of a decade-long conservation partnership with ...

Indonesia celebrated the birth of its first locally born giant panda cub and hailed it as a conservation success. The species ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The first giant panda cub born in Indonesia is noisy, nursing well and showing other signs of good ...

The panda cam has longer hours than the actual zoo, with live recordings of the bears available from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day of the week.

The Smithsonian museums and National Zoo are set to reopen within days after the longest government shutdown in U.S. history comes to an end. The National Museum of American History, the National Air ...

Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo are welcoming members of the public back after weeks of closures because of the government shutdown. The Smithsonian Institution, which receives federal ...

Now that President Donald Trump signed the funding bill passed by Congress into law Wednesday night to end the government shutdown, D.C.’s Smithsonian museums will open their doors once again. The ...