HOUSTON — The Houston Zoo over the weekend opened its first insectarium in the park's 92-year history, featuring some exotic and venomous species in more than two dozen custom habitats that make up ...

HOUSTON — An alert keeper in the Houston Zoo's Bug House recently noticed that a grasshopper was having trouble holding its head level. When the Peruvian jumping stick, which are stick-like ...

The weakened area was causing the insect's head to flop all the way back due to its weight whenever the bug climbed upwards, according to the zoo. The species spends most of its time climbing and ...

The teeny-tiny device kept the Peruvian jumping stick's "neck" from flopping around, per the zoo Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and interned ...

Where someone else might see a Q-tip, the Houston Zoo sees a medical device for a tiny friend. The veterinary team at the zoo jumped into action after one entomology keeper noticed that a Peruvian ...

As people across the Houston area enjoyed a "once in a generation" winter storm Tuesday, so did some of the animals at the Houston Zoo. While some of the animals elected to stay warm inside enclosures ...

Zoo Boo is the Houston Zoo's annual Halloween celebration, a long-running tradition that transforms the Zoo into a festive, family-friendly destination each fall. Guests are encouraged to come in ...

HOUSTON — The Houston Zoo will celebrate its inaugural Día de los Muertos festival this weekend while giving visitors their first chance to see a rare baby okapi, the zoo announced Tuesday. The zoo ...