Basil, the opossum who called the National Zoo’s Small Mammal House home and won News4’s 2023 bracket for D.C.’s Next Animal Obsession, died on May 1.

Set on 163 acres in Northwest Washington, the National Zoo was founded in 1889 to inspire the ... serves as the headquarters for the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. The zoo’s DC space is ...

The zoo houses animals from all over the ... you’re going to find yourself walking along the National Mall! Yes, Washington ...

the National Zoo. The orangutan’s name is Iris. Yes, Iris for I-R-S. She “was born here on April 15, 1987,” the zoo said on social media. That fact was followed by an exclamation point ...

See your favorite Smithsonian museum or the National Zoo in a new light by participating ... watching planes take off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The park is just a few hundred ...

Veterinarians at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, DC, say they successfully treated a leaf-tailed gecko for skin cancer using chemotherapy — a procedure believed to be the first of its ...

Tiny Gecko Becomes First Lizard Treated For Cancer With Chemo At DC’s National Zoo He may only weigh 3 ounces, but this little lizard just helped make veterinary history. Veterinarians at the ...

The Washington ... National Park Week, which National Mall and Memorial Parks chief of communications Mike Litterst said is “a great time to visit” the park. Marian Anderson's 'seminal' Easter concert ...

WASHINGTON — It turns out the secret sauce to D.C.'s success isn’t just mumbo sauce — it's tourism. A record-breaking 27.2 million visitors poured into the nation’s capital in 2024, shattering the ...

The Washington Commanders should be searching for a running back at some point during next week's draft. The team doesn't have a running back signed beyond the 2025 campaign, so injecting that ...

They picked Oregon's Dillon Gabriel in the third round and traded up for Colorado's Shedeur Sanders in the fifth round.