Siku, a 15-year-old male polar bear, is moving in the coming weeks to Madison, Wisconsin — home, of course, of the University ...

Captive life does more than change routines for bears and pandas. It also changes the microscopic communities living in their ...

Spanning India, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, and Pakistan, the region is home to some of the most elusive and majestic wildlife ...

A new study asks whether 100 years of plush redesign has turned the wild’s most feared predator into a comfort object—and ...

India's rich biodiversity includes numerous endangered and vulnerable species, many of which are designated as state animals ...

Hamsters are small rodents of the subfamily Cricetinae, which contains about 19 species. The golden or Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) is one of the best-known species of hamster. Syrian ...

The Smithsonian National Zoo threw a large birthday bash filled with cake, treats and toys for their 4-year-old panda, marking her first party at the Washington park. Qing Bao, one of two giant pandas ...

The red panda (Ailurus fulgens) is one of nature’s most enchanting creatures, with its fox-like face, rust-colored fur, and raccoon-like ringed tail. Native to the eastern Himalayan forests spanning ...

How does a panda celebrate his birthday? At the National Zoo, it’s by living out every four-year-old’s dream: cake for breakfast. Today, Bao Li, the giant male panda at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — The Smithsonian's National Zoo helped Giant panda Bao Li mark his 4th birthday on Monday with a sweet celebration. The festivities began at 9 a.m. at the David M. Rubenstein ...

A new Linux malware named Koske may have been developed with artificial intelligence and is using seemingly benign JPEG images of panda bears to deploy malware directly into system memory. Researchers ...