This Amphibian Week, take a closer look at what makes these species so wonderfully weird and worthy of our attention.
From frogs and toads to newts, salamanders and caecilians, amphibians have some of
Try not to get ’swamped‘ with these bite-sized facts about American alligators and their crocodilian cousins.
Crocodiles have long, thin snouts with pointy, V-shaped ends.
Get the scoop on the Zoo’s new 3-year-old sloth bear, Niko, from animal keeper Mindy Babitz.
We have seen him lay on his back while kicking a bouncy hanging toy with his feet
Naked mole-rats are pink, nearly hairless subterranean rodents that live in burrows in eastern Africa. These surprisingly long-lived animals are one of the only true eusocial mammals; they live in large colonies in which only one female breeds and the majority of individuals spend their lives working for the colony.
Lifespan Naked mole-rats may have a life span of 10-30 years.
Nov. 29 is World Anteater Day. Celebrate by getting to know one of the remarkable members of the anteater family: the tamandua!
Tamanduas have incredibly long, sticky tongues.
Get the answers to your most internet-searched questions about orangutans.
Why do orangutans have big faces?
Smithsonian scientists were the first in the world to successfully cryopreserve coral and continue to advance the field of research to protect the world’s coral reefs.
To date, scientists have placed sperm or stem cells from 16 species of coral from
The silver arowana (or arawana) is a freshwater fish native to the floodplains of the Amazon. It has a long body covered in large, pearly-silver scales. Large dorsal and anal fins extend down its body to the tail, and two barbels extend from the tip of its lower jaw.
They have dorsal and anal fins that are almost fused with the caudal fin.
The Zoo has a new troop of seven monkeys! It’s a mixed-species group of guenons. Learn all about our new monkeys, and about guenons, in this Q&A with primate curator Meredith Bastian and keepers Alexandra Reddy and Elliott Rosenthal.
What species of guenons do we have here?
National Zoological Park’s Janine Brown and a team of collaborators have just completed
