National Zoo

A Quarry Road sign in Northwest Washington is a reminder that in the 1870s, a bluestone quarry was on the banks of Rock Creek.

Beautiful weather and a trifecta of celebrations drew a crowd to the National Zoo on Monday.

The zoo will maintain its three main entrances but shed seven pedestrian access points

The National Zoo said Wednesday that it received permission last week from the National Capital Planning Commission to proceed with a controversial plan to extend security fencing around its complex.

The Smithsonian National Zoo has backed off an earlier proposal to build security checkpoints at zoo entrances after public backlash against the plan. But in a new plan approved by the National Capital Planning Commission on Thursday, it’s…

Good fences make good neighbors, and Smithsonian’s National Zoo is hoping to continue making the place a neighborly place to visit by adding more fences throughout the zoo to increase visitor safety.

WASHINGTON — Nothing much has changed for the goofy giant pandas and the rascally red pandas. They’re still on display, climbing, falling, flopping and doing all the cute and entertaining things that make the pandas the most popular…

The museums and zoo were closed for nearly a month due to the government shutdown.

There was no line of people waiting to rush the gates at the National Zoo on Tuesday, the institution’s first day back open after a partial government shutdown left the gates locked for more than three weeks.

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian National Zoo has reopened after the federal government shutdown, and William Lewis and his mom, who came all the way from South Carolina, were one of the first in line.

The National Mall and Memorial Parks in D.C. will resume normal operations Sunday, The National Park Service announced Saturday. The National Zoo will reopen on Tuesday, along with other Smithsonian museums affected by the partial…

You’ll need to wait a few more days to visit the naked mole rats or pay your respects to the grumpy naked man statue at the Hirshhorn.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hungry pandas don’t particularly care whether there’s a partial government shutdown.

WASHINGTON — Typically bustling sidewalks near the Smithsonian’s National Zoo were eerily quiet Wednesday on the first day of the zoo’s closure due to the partial government shutdown.

If you’ve gone to visit the extremely cute baby gorilla at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in the past few weeks, you may have noticed a man on a ladder using tiny brushes to slowly, painstakingly paint hundreds of giant bees around the…

She was a distant cousin to all of us, but she was old, perhaps the oldest of her kind in America, and on Friday, the National Zoo’s white-cheeked gibbon was euthanized. Named Muneca, she was born in Cambodia, came to the zoo in 1999, and…

The Smithsonian Institution says it will submit a “revised project later this fall”

WASHINGTON — They’re naked, buck-toothed and nearly blind, but that isn’t stopping a colony of 17 naked mole-rats from trying to take the internet by storm at the Smithsonian National Zoo.