Rolf Benirschke, former San Diego Chargers placekicker, has been elected chairman of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.

A daytime celebration will be held at the zoo from 1 to 3 p.m. The cougars lanterns will be lowered at 2 p.m. in a countdown for the New Year. Activities include special keeper chats featuring the ...

For some parents in Nepal, child-rearing involves competing to have their daughters selected and sequestered as living ...

The brazen heist at the world’s most visited museum in November wasn’t just a whodunit, it was a “who wore it.” Hours after thieves snatched the French crown jewels from the Louvre, an AP photographer ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --The San Diego Zoo announced the birth of a giraffe calf to a first-time mother who was also born at the zoo years earlier. The zoo announced Masai giraffe Mawe gave birth to her first ...

The giraffe habitat at the San Diego Zoo just got a new resident. A new calf was born on Nov. 30 between Mawe, its mother, and Chifu, the father. Both parents are Masai giraffes who were born at the ...

Families go wild when visiting San Diego, and when they throw in animal encounters, it gets even better. But here’s the catch: there are two big-name wildlife attractions in San Diego, and they’re ...

Gramma, the beloved Galapagos tortoise who lived at the San Diego Zoo for nearly a century, has died on Nov. 20. She was (about) 141. The zoo's care team "made the compassionate and exceptionally ...

After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galápagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died. Gramma was born ...

LOS ANGELES — After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galápagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died.