In the mayoral race at Des Moines’ Blank Park Zoo, voters turned out for a young, sharp candidate with lots of charisma. Oscar, a North American Porcupine, carried the race with 74% of the final vote ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — There have been plenty of predictions made for Super Bowl LVIII, but an Iowa zoo whose animals have a remarkable record for accuracy weighed in on Wednesday. Officials at the Blank ...

Visitors to Iowa’s largest zoo may have to be patient, but they should now be able to spot the newest resident, a tiny grey-brown Japanese macaque. Blank Park Zoo spokesman Alex Payne says the monkey ...

Photos show the adorable rhino calf's first week. — -- A zoo in Iowa is celebrating the recent birth of a rare baby black rhino. The Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, Iowa, announced the birth of a ...

The baby Blanding's turtles returned to the wetlands with tiny transmitters Dozens of Blanding's turtles were released back into their natural wetland habitat on June 4 Iowa Department of Natural ...

Barnaby the Aldabra tortoise. Screengrab from Blank Park Zoo's Facebook page. An injured tortoise living at a zoo in Iowa was given a specially-made device to help him move around. Barnaby the Aldabra ...

Iowa's shark population just grew by two — and you don't even need a boat to see them. Snoopy and Pluto, Blank Park Zoo's newest bamboo sharks, have been added to the big reef aquarium in the ...

DES MOINES,Iowa (KGO) -- The Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, Iowa, welcomed a baby giraffe to the world on Tuesday, December 6. The female giraffe stood over six feet tall and weighed 136 pounds, ...

A bamboo shark was so startled that it latched onto a zoo employee’s hand, an Iowa zoo said. Bamboo sharks aren’t known to bite, and there has been no record of these small sharks harming humans, ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - Blank Park Zoo broke ground Thursday on a new exhibit featuring Iowa’s native wildlife. The Ruan Foundation Wild Iowa exhibit will feature bobcats, eagles, turtles, reptiles, ...