The Oregon Zoo is home to many large animals – take, for example, the biggest baby in the city, elephant calf Tula-Tu. But the zoo also works with smaller animals, sometimes much, much smaller ...

Quick-thinking staff rushed to save the 47-year-old African elephant after she was knocked to the ground by another elephant.

The Oregon Zoo has welcomed a new group of Pacific lamprey in an effort to restore the population of one of the Pacific Northwest’s oldest species. Although the zoo has had lamprey before, they ...

African elephant Genny C, 47, was knocked to the ground by another elephant in her enclosure at the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, where teams used cranes to help her back to her big feet.

Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth ivory. Since the two types look deceptively similar, law ...

A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

The Oklahoma City Zoo welcomes Xerxes, born on Tuesday, to parents Achara and Bowie. The zoo's herd now contains eight individual elephants.

In a first for the Columbus Zoo, two elephants are pregnant. The babies will build up the herd but also further the species' sustainability nationally.

Topeka Zoo elephant Cora, who appeared 45 years ago in a "Smokey and the Bandit" movie, is expected to get a visit June 9 from fans of those films.

After he was found wandering behind a Lebanon apartment building, a tiny opossum has found a new home at the Oregon Zoo.

BANDON, Ore. (AP) — Oregon police say they arrested a zoo owner on drug charges following a police raid at the facility earlier this month that resulted in drug seizures and hundreds of animals ...