Glowfari, the Oakland Zoo’s lantern festival, is almost over for the season — it ends on Jan. 26. But it’s not too late to gape at the impressive displays of Egyptian pyramids and fields of ...

Visit www.calacademy.org. Glowfari-A Widly Illuminating Lantern Festival This brand-new, family-friendly experience features hundreds of larger-than-life animal lanterns throughout the Oakland Zoo, ...

Every year, the group In Defense of Animals releases its list of North America’s 10 worst zoos for elephants.

The Oakland Zoo last weekend rescued a trio of orphaned mountain lion cubs out of San Mateo County, according a news release Wednesday. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife brought the ...

“While there were many witnesses of the mountain lion after it was hit, the carcass has since disappeared and is still being investigated,” the Oakland Zoo said in a statement. “As su ...

Officials at the Zoo​ on Friday confirmed that their 43-year-old endangered Western lowland gorilla named "Oscar Jonesy" died ...

Three mountain lion cubs, believed to have been orphaned after their mother was killed by a car, are currently recovering at the Oakland Zoo in California. Fern, Thistle and Spruce were found by ...