A tiny gecko had a big problem: squamous cell carcinoma. How the zoo's vets teamed up to save the creature and make history.

Imagine stepping into a world where the boundaries between man and wild seem to fade, where the roar of a lion echoes across ...

He may only weigh 3 ounces, but this little lizard just helped make veterinary history. Veterinarians at the Smithsonian’s ...

museums and the National Zoo overseen by the Department of Interior. On Thursday, the news outlet BlackPressUSA published a report that an exhibit from a historic moment in the Civil Rights ...

A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by hand puppet — a decades-old technique used to ensure the chick ...

Lioness Mahagauri gave birth to four cubs on Sunday, making it the first successful breeding of Asiatic lions at Delhi’s National Zoological Park since 2009. “The mother is looking after the cubs well ...

Humans have used geckos in the pursuit of skin cancer treatments. So it seems fitting that when a gecko at the National Zoo was spotted with tumors, humans went all in to save the little fella.