The National Zoo and National Air and Space Museum called off their popular annual Halloween kids’ events, a disappointment for many D.C.-area families as the government shutdown hit two weeks with no ...

WASHINGTON — The panda-monium is real at Metro headquarters, as transit authorities rolled out custom SmarTrip cards featuring the Smithsonian's National Zoo giant pandas ahead of their debut Friday.

If you make a beeline for the red pandas before even checking the map, this holiday is for you. National Zoo Lovers Day, celebrated every April 8th, gives us a chance to celebrate the animals (and the ...

Lions and tigers and Lyla-potamuses, oh my! This past week, we took a chilly hike through the wilderness of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C. This was the first time for my ...

Collections of wild and exotic animals have been maintained in menageries by the powerful and wealthy since the time of the pharaohs. However, the first known public collection of caged animals to be ...