Working with wildlife as a registered veterinary technician is a one-of-a-kind job.

If it looks like a duck, swims like an otter, and lays eggs, it's the platypus! Get an in-depth look at this freshwater-loving mammal.

When it comes to pollinators, most people think of bees, butterflies, and birds, gracefully flitting from flower to flower. But do you think about bats, mice, lemurs, and mongooses?

What’s the buzz about pollinators? Here’s a look at how mighty these tiny species are.

SAN DIEGO (Dec. 19, 2023) – For more than a decade, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s entomology team has collaborated with Australia’s Melbourne Zoo to maintain populations of the critically endangered Lord Howe Island stick insect. For the first time in North America, visitors to the San Diego Zoo will have the opportunity to see these rare, nocturnal insects in a specialized habitat at the Zoo’s Wildlife Explorers Basecamp.

SAN DIEGO (Nov. 27, 2023) – When a mysterious illness called “sea star wasting syndrome” decimated 95% of the sunflower sea star population, and some 20 other sea star species along the Pacific Coast from Baja to Alaska in 2013, scientists rallied to understand the factors that caused such a massive wasting event. Now as part of the greater recovery initiative, in a scientific first, dozens of baby sunflower sea stars were hatched and are thriving thanks to a breakthrough in reproductive cell cryopreservation technology.

Challenges are lurking in the watery world of black caimans—and their reptilian relatives.

These resourceful insects turn fresh leaves into an edible fungus garden.

It takes an innovative, comprehensive approach to bolster Hawaiian bird populations and ensure their future.

For naked mole-rats, it’s one for all, and all for one.