One of the best things that can happen to a zoo or aquarium is for one of their resident animals to go viral. Just look at the multi-hour-long lines to see Moo Deng, a pygmy hippo in Thailand who has ...

Cuteness can shift moods and lower cortisol, and science backs it up. Looking at baby animals, like a seal pup blinking on a beach or a panda somersaulting, actually lights up the same brain areas as ...

It's nearly impossible to escape the influence of 3-month-old baby hippo Moo Deng. Over the span of a week, Moo Deng drew in millions of online admirers. The charismatic animal, whose name means ...

A baby red panda has died due to "stress caused by fireworks" after choking on her own vomit just five days after her mother died, according to an animal rights group, leading to calls for tighter ...