While the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park are best known for rare and endangered animals such as giant pandas, koalas and ...

More than 500 native plants in San Diego County are held in a Native Seed Bank at the zoo. Those seeds are dried down to a ...

The tallest mammals in the San Diego Zoo have welcome a new member to the fold: a 14-month-old male giraffe. The baby comes ...

San Diego Zoo welcomes new addition to red panda family The four-week-old endangered red panda is first cub born at the zoo in nearly 20 years.

Key Facts The pandas, Yun Chuan and Xin Bao, arrived at the San Diego Zoo in June and spent months acclimating to their new habitat before being publicly shown on Thursday, the zoo said.

San Diego Zoo Baby meerkats born at San Diego Zoo The pups spend their days eating, practicing digging, playing and relaxing in underground burrows, according to the zoo.

A joint project of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, Percy was let out to celebrate the opening of the zoo’s new Wildlife Explorers Basecamp.

According to the San Diego Zoo, these animals glide through the water by pushing themselves off other objects. And they can stay underwater for up to 5 minutes without coming up for air, according ...

The San Diego Zoo’s Wildlife Care team announced the arrival of a special new infant, marking an exciting turning point for an endangered species in a release Friday.

And, according to the San Diego Zoo, when threatened, tapirs will submerge themselves in a river and use their snouts like a snorkel.

The venerable San Diego Zoo invites long and repeated visits. There are, after all, more than 3,700 animals to get to know. Plus, the Australian Outback area was just updated.