For the first time in nearly 25 years, D.C.'s Smithsonian National Zoo is celebrating the birth of an Asian elephant calf! The zoo announced the birth on Tuesday morning, asking for the public's help ...

In a novel move, feces from a baby elephant in Ohio were shipped to the zoo and mixed with Linh Mai’s formula.

It’s a girl! An elephant gave birth at the National Zoo on Monday, February 2, marking the first time in almost 25 years the zoo has welcomed a baby Asian elephant. There’s an abundance of bad news in ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WABC) -- The National Zoo's four African lion cubs will soon be on display after passing one serious test this week. It was the all-important swim reliability test to see if the ...

The District’s Cleveland Park neighborhood lives and breathes around the Smithsonian National Zoo and its pandas. But for the past 40-odd days, businesses around the zoo have faced a diminishing wave ...

WASHINGTON — We don't mean to cause panda-monium but we have big news—The giant pandas will return to the District. The zoo will once again be home to two giant pandas named Qing Bao (ching-BOW) and ...

It's a day thousands of visitors to the National Zoo have been dreading for months, or possibly years. The zoo's famed giant pandas are leaving D.C. and boarding a specially equipped FedEx plane en ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Nearly a year after pandas left National Zoo, staff members and people in D.C. and across the DMV welcomed two giant pandas from China back to the nation’s capital. Bao Li ...

The Smithsonian Zoo invited the public to celebrate the fourth birthday of their giant panda, Qing Bao, on Sept. 12. This is Qing Bao’s first birthday since arriving at the zoo last year. The big ...