Blank Park Zoo is welcoming a cute new addition to the family: MJ, the 7-year-old snow leopard. MJ is from the Bronx Zoo and moved to Des Moines based on a recommendation of the Species Survival Plan.

DES MOINES, Iowa — 57 baby Blanding turtles have been taken in by the Blank Park Zoo as part of a statewide conservation ...

Blank Park Zoo welcomed 57 Blanding's turtles to the world, a species considered endangered globally. The baby turtles are ...

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DES MOINES, Iowa — The Blank Park Zoo said goodbye to the oldest otter it had in captivity Thursday following a decline in her health, according to the zoo's announcement Friday afternoon.

The Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and Iowa State University are working together to ...

Two new rhinos have arrived ... moved to Woburn Safari Park, Bedfordshire, on 20 August and three-year-old female Azeeza arrived later that day from Safari Zoo Cumbria. But the keepers are ...

Recently, the Buffalo Zoo and the Lincoln Park Zoo announced an exchange between two eastern black rhinoceros (diceros bicornis michaeli). On October 3, Romeo – a four-year-old male rhino ...

Blanding's turtles at Des Moines' Blank Park Zoo will grow to be about 4 inches before they are released in the spring of 2025. The Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, the Iowa Department of Natural ...