The vast open savannah will allow visitors to Chester Zoo to encounter northern giraffes, Grevy's zebras, roan antelopes and ...

It's billed as a "breathtaking sight" where visitors, for the very first time, will get to see giraffes, zebra, antelopes and ...

Chester Zoo's new Heart of Africa zone is 22.5 acres and makes up one fifth of the zoo (Image: Chester Zoo) These include critically endangered vultures, a colony of naked mole rats, Africa's largest ...

The UK's largest zoo habitat ever created - home to 57 iconic African species - is set to open at Chester Zoo this weekend.

The vast 22.5 acre area is the UK’s biggest ever zoo development, designed to replicate the grasslands of Africa ...

Despite decades of research, scientists admit that they still have a lot to learn about sleep. In general, sleep can be ...

Duckie the Pueblo Zoo penguin needs your help as he waddles his way to the final rounds of an international penguin ...

In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats one day begin showing up dead on residents’ ...

Academy Award-winner Pippa Ehrlich —director of My Octopus Teacher — is back with a new documentary about one of Earth's ...

What happens in a fight between hyenas versus African wild dogs? The hyenas may have the size advantage, but the dogs have ...

Emerging and re-emerging viral infections pose a constant threat to animals. In recent years there is sudden increase in the number of emerging and ...

AFRICAN swine fever (ASF) is an acute, contagious and highly lethal disease of domestic pigs; it is usually acquired in Africa by association with wild swine, especially warthogs, which are ...