Reptile Discovery Center staff at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute’s (NZCBI) campus in Washington, D.C., are mourning the loss of Murphy, a 26-year-old male Komodo ...

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

The museum’s move followed a similar one last week by the National Gallery, as museums try to comply with an executive order ...

After a hiatus of 14 months, giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao captivated a passionate crowd of patrons and officials at the ...

Bao Li and Qing Bao, the two giant pandas from China, are 3 years old and arrived in October. After taking a few months to settle in, they're making their public debut at the National Zoo.

Even with a new administration only a few days old, Washington's newest stars from China stole the spotlight on Friday when a ...

The Smithsonian National Zoo’s newest giant pandas ... three times the size of Yellowstone's National Park, where pandas can live and they can thrive in the wild. People love pandas because ...

WASHINGTON — Three-year-old panda bears Bao Li and Qing Bao made their official public debut Friday at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute to great fanfare from the ...

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, second from right, claps to the sounds of Crush Funk Brass Band during the opening ceremony celebrating the Smithsonian National Zoo's new Giant Pandas on ...