Today's the big day! Giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are making their long-awaited public debut at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C., ahead of ...

Spring is in full swing in D.C.! Alongside cherry blossoms blooming near the Tidal Basin, the Smithsonian National Zoo is ...

The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC, announced today that one of its Asian elephants, Nhi Linh (pronounced NEE-lin), is pregnant and could give birth to the first baby calf born at the ...

WASHINGTON — We don't mean to cause panda-monium but we have big news—The giant pandas will return to the District. The zoo will once again be home to two giant pandas named Qing Bao (ching-BOW) and ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — As the sun set over the Capitol, shining light after 43 days of darkness, a glow also illuminated the Smithsonian Museums, all nine of them that reopened this weekend and welcomed ...

The Smithsonian museums and National Zoo are set to reopen within days after the longest government shutdown in U.S. history comes to an end. The National Museum of American History, the National Air ...