The Bronx Zoo’s beloved blind gorilla, who was featured in an Animal Planet docuseries, died of an ‘acute cardiac event,” the zoo announced Tuesday. Ntondo, a male western lowland gorilla who lived in ...

A lot of exciting changes and celebrations are coming to the Cincinnati Zoo.The zoo is celebrating the birth of African penguin chicks for the first time in three years, marking a hopeful milestone ...

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less likely to adjust their thinking after making mistakes during number ...

Narrators of great events tend to write grand prose. But a casual tone goes over better with a lecture-hall audience. Walter A. McDougall has taught a course in modern European history at the ...

As Mickey contends with her legacy throughout the film, O’Hara further shapes her own, creating one of the most tender and surprisingly touching characters of her indelible career. Like all of Guest’s ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

An eagerly awaited Asian elephant calf has made her grand arrival at the Smithsonian's National Zoo. The baby was born Feb. 2 at 1:15 a.m. after a 21-month gestation to parents Nhi Linh and Spike, the ...

The female calf, whose name has not yet been decided, was born around 1:15 a.m. Monday, Feb. 2 to 12-year-old mother Nhi Linh and 44-year-old father Spike. This is Nhi Linh’s first offspring. Brandie ...

A 300-pound Asian elephant calf was born at the National Zoo early Monday, the zoo announced Tuesday morning. The calf, a female, is the first elephant to be born at the zoo in almost 25 years, and ...

Without a resident groundhog, the Milwaukee County Zoo had an eastern black rhino – one of its newest residents – handle its Groundhog Day prediction this year. According to non-scientific tradition, ...

Angela feeds a rhino and explores conservation efforts at the 102-year-old Racine Zoo. Host Angela Fitzgerald visits the 102-year-old Racine Zoo for a behind-the-scenes look at this AZA-accredited ...

It’s a baby only a mother could love. A rare wide-eyed pygmy slow loris — with eyes as big as its ears and a sleep cycle that would drive even the most patient parents bonkers — has become the first ...