Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium

One of Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium’s female Sumatran tigers died Monday from injuries sustained during a breeding introduction.

Blizzard, a polar bear who has called Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium home since 1997, has been diagnosed with liver cancer.

Bjorn the sea lion prepared for his public debut at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, swimming laps in a 30-foot circular pool behind the scenes at the Rocky Shores habitat.

During the darkest time of the year, hundreds of thousands of LED lights create bright animals, landmarks and dazzling displays for Zoolights at Tacoma’s…

Walruses have a huge vocabulary of sounds. They whistle, they grunt, and they can even sound like a steam train.But, Rosemary Ponnekanti says, they also…

Beginning Friday, an aquarium in Tacoma will let paying visitors dive in a shark-infested tank.The Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium has built a dive cage…

TACOMA, Wash. – Veterinarians at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma killed a Sumatran tiger who was suffering from lymphoma and kidney…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A wild mink entered the seabird exhibit at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma and killed seven tufted puffins.The zoo says…

The Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium's 3-week old Sumatran tiger cub is now on public display. The 8 pound feline has been moved into the cub den at the…

Officials at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium have decided to take a newborn Sumatran tiger cub from its mother and rear it by hand.The cub, born August…