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North America

Zoo news and information from the North America.

A group of smiling preschool-age children sit cross-legged on the floor in a bright classroom, clapping and looking toward an adult seated in front of them reading aloud

Events

A Science Museum Moves Into All 36 Broward Libraries

Mr Zoo News

An empty stretch of beach on South Padre Island under a cloudy sky, with surf breaking on the left, eroded grass-topped dunes rising on the right, and a line of pelicans flying low over the sand

Conservation Projects

New England Aquarium Follows Its Turtles to Texas

September 10, 2026

Nine people in orange and tan waders stand smiling on the deck of a boat on Long Island Sound behind a stack of encrusted lobster traps recovered from the seafloor, with a wooded shoreline behind them

Conservation Projects

4,000 Ghost Lobster Traps Out of Long Island Sound

A glowing carved sea turtle and pumpkin display lit up in an aquarium atrium

Events

Six Weeks of Pumpkins, Some of Them Underwater

A small European legless lizard, pale olive with fine dark banding and a visible eye and ear opening, curls over a person's closed hand

North America

Buffalo Zoo Hatches a Lizard That Looks Like a Snake

The Buffalo Zoo hatched a European legless lizard on August 1, the first ...

Four young gharials rest against one another on a mesh floor, their long narrow snouts lined with fine teeth and their tan bodies marked with dark bands

Conservation Projects

Eight Gharials Hatch in Fort Worth, a Fourth Straight Year

Eight gharials hatched at the Fort Worth Zoo this summer, between June 3 ...

Promotional graphic for Ice Age Invasion showing a woolly mammoth with long curved tusks and shaggy brown hair standing among cracked blue ice

Events

A Woolly Mammoth Moves In at the Metro Richmond Zoo

The Metro Richmond Zoo has put a woolly mammoth in the woods behind ...

A scimitar-horned oryx standing in a grassy paddock

Conservation Projects

Eighteen Oryx in Virginia, and Why They Matter

There are eighteen scimitar-horned oryx at the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute in Front ...

A life-sized animatronic Tyrannosaurus rex with its jaws open stands among green trees and ferns at San Francisco Zoo.

Events

San Francisco Zoo Lines Its Lake With 21 Dinosaurs

San Francisco Zoo and Gardens has 21 life-sized animatronic dinosaurs standing around its ...

The entrance to Mystic Aquarium on a clear day

North America

Why a Submarine Builder Funded an Aquarium

Mystic Aquarium has signed a three-year partnership with Electric Boat, the General Dynamics ...

The two-story Red Panda Paradise habitat at Roger Williams Park Zoo, with climbing structures in the outdoor yard

Expansions

A Two-Story Habitat Built for Exactly Two Animals

The executive director of Roger Williams Park Zoo called it a luxury condominium, ...

A staff member in a blue shirt and a student kneel together on bare ground, planting a desert shrub from a pot.

Conservation Projects

A Zoo Buys 2,100 Students a Field Trip

The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert is providing more than ...

A keeper stands beside one California sea lion on a rock ledge while a second sea lion looks up from the water below.

Events

El Paso Zoo Puts Its Keeper Talks in Writing

The El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens has started publishing its keeper presentations ...

Visitors walking a path at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium on a clear day

North America

Columbus Zoo Puts 4,703 Ohioans to Work

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Zoombezi Bay and the Safari Golf Club generated ...

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