Thailand's superstar baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng has some new competition. On Thursday, the Houston Zoo announced it recently ...

From baby elephants and jaguars and the arrival of a rare hippo at the Houston Zoo to the return of a rescued sea turtle to the Gulf of Mexico, the stories are diverse but with one common ...

A million-dollar facility will soon be built in Texas that will breed genetically-modified pigs for medical science.

In November, a 477-pound, four-and-a-half-year-old male pygmy hippopotamus named Akobi moved to the Houston Zoo from San Francisco. Akobi, meaning "first born" in Yoruba, arrived as part of a ...