FORT WORTH – Going to the zoo as a kid is an essential part of growing up for many, but not everyone experiences it the same way. For the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community, it can be a real challenge ...

The Fort Worth Zoo focuses on conservation and education, in addition to dazzling thousands of kids each year. Here are some of recent updates on work going on at this Fort Worth institution. Jabulani ...

Zoo animals and their caretakers hunkered down for several days in Fort Worth, Texas, as a widespread winter storm affected dozens of states on Sunday5.Footage shows porcupine Penelope tasting a bowl ...

Workers were busy Thursday and Friday stocking barns with extra hay, fueling generators and moving animals indoors.

AP Photo/ LM Otero FORT WORTH, TX -- Some lions at the Fort Worth Zoo had an early Halloween treat by getting to play with carved pumpkins stuffed with meat. Three cubs joined two older African lions ...

The Fort Worth Zoo has announced the birth of its second baby giraffe this summer. Finnigan was born on Aug. 18, standing 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing 158 pounds. Zoo officials say Finnigan is ...

The Fort Worth Zoo’s new baby elephant now has a name, after the public cast more than 18,000 votes for their favorite. The female Asian elephant calf born on Aug. 18 will be named Lady Bird, a ...

As Texas shakes off the chill of winter, spring brings blooming bluebonnets, warm sunshine, and the perfect excuse to get outside and explore. In Fort Worth, there’s no better place to celebrate the ...

The Fort Worth Zoo is celebrating historic conservation success with the third annual hatchings of the gharial crocodile. The two new gharials hatched on June 5 and June 11. The back-to-back-to-back ...

The Fort Worth Zoo was in the news again in July as it celebrated another conservation success, with the hatching of critically endangered gharial crocodiles. Our zoo is more than a place for kids to ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (CBS News Texas) - The Fort Worth Zoo announced a new addition to its elephant herd: A female Asian elephant calf. The calf was born on Aug, 18 standing 36 inches tall and weighing ...