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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 ...
Chaska, a 15-year-old female Andean bear, will be moving from the Salisbury Zoo to the Alexandria Zoo in early May. Chaska has been at the Salisbury Zoo for 12 years and is the mother of four cubs.
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.