WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian National Zoo’s 6-week-old giant panda cub is a male, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) scientists confirmed. During the cub’s first veterinary exam Sept.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Giant panda Mei Xiang gave birth Friday to a wiggling cub and immediately began cuddling her offspring, Washington’s National Zoo said. The cub was born at 6:35 p.m. Eastern Time, ...

In August, a male cub born to panda Mei Xiang at the Smithsonian National Zoo recently got his 3-month check-up. The cub has remained nameless, so now the zoo in our nation’s capital needs help naming ...

For the first time since 2014, keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) have welcomed two sloth bear cubs. The cubs were born Dec. 7 at approximately 2:30 ...