In May, our Small Mammal House team said goodbye to two beloved tamanduas: Manny and Cayenne.

Smithsonian graduate fellow Johnny Stutzman shares how mentors can mold a scientific career in our latest Focus on the Future.

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo will welcome a new pair of giant pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, by the end of the year.

One year ago, our Primate team celebrated the much anticipated birth of a western lowland gorilla: Zahra!

Carnivore keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, welcomed a litter of endangered black-footed ferrets this week.

When the Zoo's newest Allen's swamp monkey was rejected by his mother after birth, a team of staffers stepped up to care for the infant while he was young.

This Amphibian Week, take a closer look at what makes these species so wonderfully weird and worthy of our attention.

All it took was one hands-on experience with birds to get postdoctoral fellow Todd Jones hooked. Now, he's conducting ground-breaking research on a critical stage of birds' lives.