The San Diego Zoo introduced a new giraffe calf on Nov. 30. The calf will join another little one and can be seen in the ...

A 10-year-old western lowland gorilla, named Denny, broke one of the layers of a three-layered tempered glass panel at the San Diego Zoo's gorilla forest habitat on Saturday, according to a press ...

San Diego Zoo staff and animal lovers are reeling this week following the death of beloved Gramma the Galápagos tortoise, by ...

The San Diego Zoo announced Wednesday the death of Maka, a 30-year-old Western lowland gorilla, just days after staff made the decision to compassionately euthanize some of its longest-tenured animals ...

After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galapagos tortoise ...

SAN DIEGO — A 24-year-old polar bear from the San Diego Zoo has died, the organization said in a Facebook post on Friday. Kalluk, a male polar bear, died peacefully on Aug. 14, surrounded by the ...

Two large watering holes to swim in, acres of rare and endangered plants plus a two-story restaurant that resembles a lodge on an African safari. Those are some of the features in a new habitat under ...

Tortoises can live for more than 100 years in the wild and close to double that in captivity. This tortoise was born in her native habitat likely in the 1880s.

After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galapagos tortoise ...

Gramma, a Galápagos tortoise and the San Diego Zoo’s oldest animal, died Thursday at an estimated 141 years old. Zoo officials humanely euthanized the reptile due to “ongoing bone conditions related ...