Lions, Tigers and Zebras! Plus Giraffes, Hippos and Bears. The best zoos in the US include large enclosures that allow for free-roaming wildlife. Encounter programming, where visitors can get close to ...

USA TODAY readers have spoken: The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is among the best zoos in America. The Cincinnati Zoo ranked No. 5 among America's best zoos in the 2025 10Best Readers’ Choice ...

In an announcement Friday, the zoo said it is “overjoyed” at the arrivals of the four hatchlings, a first in its more than 150-year history. The babies are the offspring of female Mommy and male ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) – A zoo in South Carolina’s capital city has been ranked among the country’s best. Riverbanks Zoo & Garden, located on 170 acres along the Saluda River just outside of Columbia, ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (AP) — A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time parents. In an announcement Friday, the zoo said it is ...

In the early hours of Jan. 17, 2017, Columbus lost one of its best-known female celebrities, Colo. The western lowland gorilla died in her sleep in her enclosure at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. Life ...

The spotlight is back on New York’s darkest exhibit. World of Darkness, the Bronx Zoo’s “groundbreaking” shadowy attraction showcasing more than two dozen rare and unusual nocturnal animals, is back ...

The world’s largest land mammal migration isn’t the famous journey of wildebeest, zebras, gazelles, elands, and impala through the Serengeti of Tanzania to the Masai Mara region of Kenya and back ...