: This event has been canceled due to forecasted thunderstorms. The Virginia Zoo encourages ticketholders to check their ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo has a brand-new member -- and you can help decide her name. On Dec. 9, just two weeks before Christmas, a baby pygmy hippo was born at the zoo in Richmond, Virginia.

Police told the BBC that they determined the owner was transporting the alligator from New York to a North Carolina zoo when it escaped. Due to a Virginia code which prohibits the possession of ...