One of the best things that can happen to a zoo or aquarium is for one of their resident animals to go viral. Just look at the multi-hour-long lines to see Moo Deng, a pygmy hippo in Thailand who has ...

A newborn baby okapi will make its first appearance this weekend at the Houston Zoo's first Dia de los Muertos celebration.

Cuteness can shift moods and lower cortisol, and science backs it up. Looking at baby animals, like a seal pup blinking on a beach or a panda somersaulting, actually lights up the same brain areas as ...

Gaylene Thomas, a wildlife care manager at the San Diego Zoo, oversees two teams that care for a variety of species, ...

Baby animals normally know their size and their place around other animals. But for a tiny but mighty baby donkey named Jack, ...

Whether it's a human baby, a tiny puppy, or even a baby goat, there's something about cuddling a tiny new life that's more healing than therapy. One lucky farmer from @high_five_farms got to ...

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Humane Society's Project Wildlife is gearing up for a busy spring season by organizing a virtual baby shower to collect essential supplies for the thousands of animals they ...

From pygmy hippos to pangolins, these parents help their offspring get the best start in life. A juvenile critically endangered and federally endangered Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) named Aurora ...

It was a big day at Disney’s Animal Kingdom for a tiny tiger cub making a global impact.Bakso, a Sumatran tiger cub born at the park in September 2024, made his official onstage debut on the Maharajah ...

Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the animal kingdom's most curious youngsters. Sumatran tigersPanthera tigris ...

The male baby giraffe, Tucker, was born to Disney's Animal Kingdom Masai giraffe Mara, marking the first giraffe birth at the park since 2021 Olga Thompson/Walt Disney World Resort A new Disney baby ...