This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The world's most seemingly-toxic lakes are under threat. And they are also home to one of our most familiar birds: ...

Fort Worth Zoo staff hold the new lesser flamingo chicks. The zoo is celebrating the hatching of 17 chicks of the nearly threatened flamingo species.(Fort Worth Zoo / Courtesy) The Fort Worth Zoo has ...

When recent hail storms killed five flamingos at the Fort Worth Zoo, we learned something new about just how good the zoo is at breeding these exotic birds. For a species called the "lesser flamingo," ...

ABILENE, Texas — When you used to walk into the Abilene Zoo, you'd be greeted by Lesser flamingos, but now those flamingos have been replaced by brown pelicans. "Part of our purpose as a zoo is ...

The Fort Worth Zoo says 17 threatened lesser flamingo chicks were hatched at the zoo over the last month and that more are on the way. The zoo said the chicks, which are born a fluffy white or gray, ...

A Maryland Zoo employee is in Africa to help support the rescue and rehabilitation of flamingo chicks.Jess Phillips, area manager for Penguin Coast at The Maryland Zoo, arrived Friday in Cape Town, ...

The Fort Worth Zoo announced it’s sharing in the graduation spirit as 12 of its lesser flamingo chicks moved into the adult habitat. Zoo officials said behind the scenes, employees raised the chicks ...