Penguins at the Oregon Zoo kept busy on a hike through the woods while the facility is closed to the public amid the coronavirus pandemic.
A 2-month-old male Amur leopard cub is entertaining himself in front of a camera inside his enclosure at the Brookfield Zoo. The zoo is closed to visitors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two lion cubs were born at the Denver Zoo on April 23. Video shows the mother, a 4-year-old lioness named Kamara, nursing and grooming the two cubs.
Highlights of this day in history for May 6: The hydrogen-filled airship Hindenburg explodes and crashes; Psychologist Sigmund Freud and actor-director Orson Welles born; Roger Bannister is the first athlete to run a mile in fewer than four minutes.
Highlights of this day in history for April 27: President and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant born; Explorer Ferdinand Magellan killed; U.S. Marines attack North Africa during the First Barbary War; Ailing baseball star Babe Ruth honored.
A rescue crew has cut a fishing net that had entangled a gray whale on Friday. The whale was in the Strait of San Juan de Fuca near Port Angeles, Washington, northwest of Seattle (April 24).
Highlights of this day in history for April 24: An aborted mission to free American hostages in Iran ends in disaster; Ireland's 'Easter Rising' begins; Armenians face mass deportation during World War I; Singer Barbra Streisand born.
Two pet cats in New York state have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, marking the first confirmed cases in companion animals in the United States. But experts say there is no evidence pets can transmit the virus to humans (April 23).
One person was killed Wednesday when an apparent tornado that damaged at least two businesses tore through Marshall County in southern Oklahoma (April 23).
SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket with 60-satellite payload from Brevard County, FL for SpaceX's Starlink broadband network. The first stage stage lands safely on the pad (April 22).
