What’s an Asian small-clawed otter’s favorite enrichment toy? Anything it can get its paws on! This species’ dexterous, partially-webbed digits are adept at feeling for […]

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On the morning of Monday, Jan. 30, 2017 a 25-pound female bobcat cat was discovered missing from its exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in […]

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Ollie the bobcat, who escaped from her enclosure at the Smithsonian National Zoo, was found two days after her disappearance roaming near the zoo’s bird […]

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Jeopardy’s Clue Crew visits the Smithsonian’s National Zoo!

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The start of spring brought a cheetah cub boom to the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal, Va., where two large litters were […]

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As the world prepares to celebrate Global Tiger Day this Saturday, July 29, Great Cats keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo have some big news […]

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Ashkii, a North American river otter, at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park

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On World Elephant Day–Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017–the Smithsonian’s National Zoo celebrated Ambika the elephant’s 70th birthday. Hear her keepers of more than 30 years talk […]

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 The zoo extends the collecting mission of the Smithsonian into the realm of the living. From the Series: Stories From the Vault: Random? http://bit.ly/2gfy5hO

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Visits to the Smithsonian's National Zoo just became a little bit sweeter with the arrival of a new honeybee colony. With a hive made of glass in the Zoo's Pollinarium and full access to the outdoors, these bees are showing off the wondrous ways of their world.

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How do you recreate the ocean in a box? National Zoo Keeper Mike Henley talks about how he cares for the aquatic invertebrates in the Zoo's collection and how the National Zoo is also working to preserve them in their native habitats.

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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well,” Virginia Woolf once said. Woolf’s sentiment is one that the staff […]

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Each year, tens of millions of Americans, young and old, choose to learn about science in informal ways -- by visiting museums and aquariums, attending after-school programs, pursuing personal hobbies, and watching TV documentaries, for example.

The seemingly insatiable demand among people and businesses alike helps reveal a rash of privacy and security issues facing the platform

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With Zoom – and Zoom-bombing – being all the rage, here’s why the app’s default password settings may be leaving the backdoor wide open

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Here’s how you can greatly improve your Zoom privacy and security in a few simple steps

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Even accounts belonging to banks and educational institutions were found on lists plastered across various hacker forums

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The rental car service has tweaked its model to support emergency services during the lockdown and is gearing up its IT infrastructure for the post-Covid surge in demand.

The rental car service has tweaked its model to support emergency services during the lockdown and is gearing up its IT infrastructure for the post-Covid surge in demand.

Facebook on Friday unveiled a new video chat service with virtual "rooms" where people can pop in to visit friends, aiming at users turning to the popular Zoom platform during the pandemic.

The video-conferencing app has seen a global usage during the coronavirus lockdowns.

The new features will allow admins to disable the use of a Personal Meeting ID (PMI) for scheduling or starting an instant meeting. As per the company, disabling the use of PMIs reduces that risk altogether and doesn’t leave PMI security up to individual users.

The company is planning to develop tools that will give more controls to meeting hosts and allow users to securely join a meeting.

Zoom was the most downloaded non-game app worldwide for April 2020 with close to 131 million installs, a 60x growth from April 2019

The company is planning to develop tools that will give more controls to meeting hosts and allow users to securely join a meeting.

Zoom was the most downloaded non-game app worldwide for April 2020 with close to 131 million installs, a 60x growth from April 2019

Hackers have been reported to be ‘Zoombombing’ private online video meetings with abusive messages and offensive video footage.

The cuddly duo — a boy and a girl born at the Hellabrunn Zoo on Dec. 9 — explore their enclosure with their mom, Giovanna.

A geothermal loop will keep a fancy new elephant house toasty with the captured heat generated by the cooling system in the polar bear habitat.

A speedy NASA probe has crossed the orbit of Neptune, notching one more spaceflight milestone on its way toward a historic flyby of Pluto.

Animals at Australia's Mogo Zoo were saved from wildfires by savvy staff.

75 percent of all emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, meaning they originated in animals. Here are 10 to be aware of and which animals carry them.

So far, the apes are using 10 different apps, including cognitive games, drawing programs and ones that feature virtual musical instruments.

The breeding of these extremely rare, enormous insects is one of the most inspiring stories in the history of conservation.

Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th U.S. president, had a menagerie that included everything from dogs and bears to rodents and a one-legged rooster.

The human brain hasn't caught up to the technology of video conferencing yet.

47 animals were saved after a daring mission to a zoo in the Gaza Strip.

The zoo had been trying for 10 years to encourage pandas Ying Ying and Le Le to mate. All it took was a coronavirus lockdown.

The black rhino calf appears healthy and is nursing regularly, according to zoo officials.

Penguins are getting a chance to explore facilities that are closed to human visitors due to COVID-19.

Bats don't pose an unusual risk among mammals, research suggests, and bat viruses we do get often rely far more on us than bats.

Internal Sale Creates Two Restaurant Brands with Dedicated Ownership, Operations, and Management Teams

Grand Re-Opening Celebration to Feature Reimaged New Orleans Flair on November 4