ASHEBORO, NC -- The key to saving the world's most threatened animals from extinction might lie in the hands of the North Carolina Zoo employee who co-invented it. It really is remarkable, the little ...

C’sar, the oldest African bull elephant in the United States, died Dec. 19 at the North Carolina Zoo. C'sar, who was 51 years old, came to the zoo in 1978, at just 4 years old. He was the zoo's first ...

The North Carolina Zoo lost one of its most beloved animals over the Christmas season. In this week’s edition of Zoo Filez, ...

ASHEBORO, N.C. (WTVD) -- The North Carolina Zoo welcomed a newborn baby giraffe on Saturday. The zoo announced the arrival of the calf on social media on Wednesday. According to zoo officials, the ...

CHERRYVILLE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – “Once upon a time, there was a girl who really loved giraffes,” a series of bedroom signs read at a Cherryville home. Look around and you quickly realize that the ...

ASHEBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The North Carolina Zoo announced on Monday that its director and CEO, Pat Simmons, has died after a five-year battle with cancer. Simmons served as the NC Zoo’s leader for a ...

A “sweet” red panda with a love for bamboo has died, a North Carolina zoo said. “She was so spunky and was a bamboo fiend,” an advanced animal care specialist for the Greensboro Science Center wrote ...

The CEO of the North Carolina Zoo has died.Pat Simmons, who began serving with the zoo in 2015, passed away after a five-year battle with cancer. In addition to CEO, she was also the director. Prior ...

ASHEBORO, N.C. (WNCT) — Officials at the North Carolina Zoo announced the death of the zoo’s male ocelot, Diego. They said Diego was nearly 22 years old which far surpasses a wild ocelot’s lifespan of ...