After years of controversy and criticism, the Woodland Park Zoo announced Wednesday it’s closing the elephant program and will move its two remaining pachyderms. But animal rights advocates say that’s ...

If you’re based in Seattle or just visiting, you’ve got tons of options when it comes to escaping into nature without ...

A zoo day is typically filled with treats, animals and the inevitable toddler meltdown at the penguin exhibit. Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo is reimagining this typical zoo day, taking the possibility ...

The new exhibit will bring Asian small-clawed otters, like those pictured in the photo, to the Woodland Park Zoo. Asian tigers and sloth bears will also be a part of the new Asian tropical forest ...

SEATTLE — Wolves are making a return to Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo as the facility welcomes a pack of endangered Mexican gray wolves. Wolves have been absent from the zoo since October 2024, when ...

Elsewhere in Seattle, the Rainier Chapter House on Capitol Hill will host " Haunted Soirée: Vampire ," an immersive cocktail ...

SEATTLE — Woodland Park Zoo's Dinosaur Discovery is a one-of-a-kind experience that brings dinosaurs to life with incredible detail and scale, making you feel like you are in the Jurassic period.

Congratulations are in order as Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo celebrates the birth of a new sloth bear cub, a baby girl born on January 8. The cub was named Bowie by the zoo’s sloth bear team, in honor ...

SEATTLE — Snug as two bugs in a rug, three year old bears Fern and Juniper are mostly slumbering the winter season away at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. "Right now they're spending all of their nights ...

PORTLAND, Ore (KOIN)- On behalf of our sponsors at Woodland Park Zoo, you’ve got a chance today to win a family four-pack of admission tickets to the Seattle area’s zoo. Woodland Park Zoo spans 92 ...

SEATTLE -- A baby giraffe with leg abnormalities is getting a little help taking its first steps, thanks to some custom-made therapeutic shoes. When the giraffe was just 5 days old, zookeepers at the ...

An employee of the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle was hospitalized over the weekend after being bitten on the hand by an orangutan during a routine training session. The worker, whose identity hasn’t ...