National Lottery Open Week returns this spring with free and discounted entry to venues across the UK, and there are some great places in and around Glasgow ideal for entertaning your kids (or ...

The Brockhouse Collection, one of the most comprehensive collections of taxidermy in the Midwest, will be donated to three ...

It's cold, wet, or snowy, and just all over miserable, but World Hippo Day is February 15! We cannot uphold our unofficial ...

EDINBURGH Zoo has welcomed two adorable new arrivals for the first time in 15 years. The Corstorphine attraction is the new home to a pair of seven-month-old capybara siblings. The cute critters, ...

The adorable additions are known for their gentle nature and social behaviour. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), the wildlife conservation charity that operates Edinburgh Zoo, is giving ...

Mostly, Moo Deng ignores the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who have schlepped to an out-of-the-way zoo for one reason ... It is a lot for a six-month-old pygmy hippopotamus, this life of ...

The pygmy hippopotamus, now 6 months old, is Thailand’s biggest celebrity, and the crowds keep flocking. What explains her charm? Thailand Dispatch The pygmy hippopotamus, now 6 months old, is ...

A third red panda has died at Edinburgh Zoo in the space of just a few months. The zoo announced that Kevyn - the attraction’s oldest male red panda - had died at the age of 14. The animal has ...

Sharing the sad news, a zoo spokesperson said he was ‘a favourite among staff and visitors’. Edinburgh Zoo’s oldest red panda, Kevyn, died at the weekend | Edinburgh Zoo Writing on social ...

ZOO bosses have seen a bounce in visitors desperate to view a rare pygmy hippo. Haggis was born in Edinburgh Zoo in October and has proved a hit to rival another calf, internet star Moo Deng.

With Burns Night topical, this is Haggis the pygmy hippo calf at Edinburgh Zoo. The hippo just been for a swim with his mum and was "looking pretty thirsty," says Lee Ansett. Simon Schwesig took ...