Instead of throwing out old plastic toys, you can use them in a DIY to create a chic-looking lamp that'll be a definite ...

Caption: Capron Park Zoo is hosting Brick LIVE: Animal Paradise, which features about 20 lifelike sculptures of animals, each made from plastic toy blocks.

Toy donations bring out the kid in animals at Memphis Zoo Ron Maxey Memphis Commercial Appeal 0:00 ...

April 5 (UPI) -- A Texas animal shelter said personnel responded to calls about an alligator on a busy highway, but they arrived to find the reported reptile was a plastic toy.

Together with Bethany Krebs, a Ph.D. affiliated with the zoo, the team started fundraising for the rhino treat toy. They were able to raise just over $15,000, the amount needed to build a prototype.

The plastic animal-shaped keys that were wildly popular at the Cincinnati Zoo four decades ago have returned. And they work about the same way they did in the past.

A massive parrotfish is part of the “Washed Ashore” exhibit at the National Zoo. (Keith Lane/For The Washington Post) By Mark Jenkins June 16, 2016 at 12:35 p.m. EDT ...

“Eliminating single-use plastic packaging in our gift shops is just one more way we’re helping save animals in the wild,” said Colley Hodges, Houston Zoo’s sustainability manager. “By ...