A striking new resident is settling into a permanent home at Brevard Zoo after being rescued from illegal ownership.

The young giraffe's name means "butterfly" in Spanish, and was inspired by a butterfly-shaped marking she had at birth.

Pythons are among the largest and most powerful snakes in the world, found across Africa, Asia, and Australia in a wide range ...

The one-day event will offer prizes for all ages and animal encounters with some of the Zoo's more than 200 animal residents.

A beloved habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden was named one of the best in America. The award was one of several the zoo received from USA TODAY readers on Wednesday, March 18, in the ...

Researchers have identified fossil evidence of a giant python — estimated to exceed 13 feet in length — that once lived on Taiwan, an island where no pythons exist today. The surprising discovery is ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 4th, the longest wild snake in history was recorded according to Guinness World Records. The reticulated python was ...

The restaurant will take over the former Taste of Belgium space. An opening date has not been announced. Downtown Cincinnati building at heart of federal probe targeted for redevelopment A building on ...

ST. LOUIS — One of the Saint Louis Zoo's oldest giraffes has died, the Saint Louis Zoo announced Tuesday. Ella, a 15 1/2-year-old reticulated giraffe, was humanely euthanized after careful assessment ...

The Bronx Zoo’s beloved blind gorilla, who was featured in an Animal Planet docuseries, died of an ‘acute cardiac event,” the zoo announced Tuesday. Ntondo, a male western lowland gorilla who lived in ...