Newt Gingrich tried out Google Glass today at the zoo in Peoria, Illinois. And while we've been promised a film of the noted historian's animal encounters, Gingrich delivered a few great picture ...

A fox red Labrador retriever named Newt is using "his incredible snout to help check on some of our local turtle populations," the Roger Williams Park Zoo shared Stephanie Wenger is a TV ...

The struggling population of Mazama newts are finding a new home at the High Desert Museum in Bend and the Oregon Zoo in Portland due to their own climate becoming increasingly challenging. The newts, ...

They're tiny and, as salamanders go, cute. But by 2012 striped newts had almost disappeared from their historical habitat in the Apalachicola National Forest in Florida's Panhandle. So that same year ...

Former Speaker of the House and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has had a lifelong love affair with zoos. Because of this, TPM wondered how he was handling the closure of the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon Zoo is launching an emergency plan to save newts that are native to Crater Lake from extinction, the zoo announced Thursday. The zoo is teaming up with the National ...

The Oregon Zoo, in partnership with the National Park Service and the High Desert Museum, has rescued 19 Mazama newts from Crater Lake National Park in an attempt to save the species from extinction.

The zoo’s Orianne Center for Indigo Conservation worked with other conservation organizations to release the threatened species. The Apalachicola National Forest is now home to the striped newts, as ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Mazama newt used to be head honcho at Crater Lake. Found only in the lake's cold waters, this brightly-colored semiaquatic species used to be one of the top predators in its ...

The latest additions to the San Antonio Zoo are squiggly and can fit in the palm of a hand. After the viewer’s eyes adjust to the shadows of the glass exhibit, the skittish amphibians appear behind ...

A Hoffman’s two-toed sloth was born Wednesday morning in the Tropical Rain Forest at the Topeka Zoo. “Both mom and baby appear to be bright and alert and doing great,” the city of Topeka said in a ...

The Roger Williams Park Zoo is calling upon a four-legged friend to help with turtle conservation in Rhode Island. A one-year-old fox red Labrador retriever named Newt is using "his incredible snout ...