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 ...

ASHEBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The North Carolina Zoo is home to several nocturnal animals, including vampire bats and brush-tailed bettongs, and there’s a new, unique addition too. FOX8’s Shannon Smith ...

ASHEBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The North Carolina Zoo continuously collects data on its animals to make sure they are thriving in their environments. As a result, zoo researchers recently made some major ...

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 ...

ASHEBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — You can give your valentine a really unique gift this year. Instead of something soft to snuggle, how about a prickly porcupine? You can adopt the North Carolina Zoo’s popular ...

Asheboro -- The North Carolina Zoo says it needs $60 million in improvements in the next decade. Zoo officials said Wednesday that some of the facilities at the Asheboro zoo are outdated or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...