Sean Kenney’s “Nature Connects” made with Lego features awe-inspiring larger than life animal sculptures crafted from ...

Less than a month ago, Columbia’s Riverbanks Zoo opened the new, multimillion-dollar Darnall W. and Susan F. Boyd Aquarium and Reptile Conservation Center to great fanfare, with a ribbon-cutting ...

A decorative cake honors Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens' 50-year anniversary Friday, April 26, 2024. The zoo opened to the public on April 25, 1974. (Skylar Laird/SC Daily Gazette) COLUMBIA — When ...

COLUMBIA — Riverbanks Zoo and Garden is a medium-size zoo that attracts big-zoo crowds — with a reputation to match. Riverbanks has become the busiest zoo operating between Washington, D.C., Miami and ...

COLUMBIA — Tommy Stringfellow, Riverbanks Zoo and Garden's second in command for the past five years, was named the attraction's president Wednesday. He succeeds Satch Krantz, who retired in June ...

Riverbanks Zoo and Garden officially has no elephants. An African elephant named Belle, the last inhabitant at the Columbia zoo’s elephant exhibit, was moved to her new home Wednesday. The 38-year-old ...

Riverbanks Zoo is mourning the loss of one of the zoo community’s favorite animals. Sundance, one of Riverbanks’ two grizzly bears, died Saturday after a period of declining health, the zoo announced ...

(Columbia) July 10, 2003 - Breeders at Riverbanks Zoo have earned their stripes, so to speak. As of Thursday visitors are able to take a look at the Columbia zoo's Siberian tiger cubs. Zoo-goers are ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia is mourning the loss the zoo’s first infant gorilla. The infant gorilla was born in the breech position Thursday morning. "Our staff is ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The City of Columbia has experienced an overflow of sanitary sewer at two locations near Riverbanks Zoo & Gardens in Richland County on Jan. 2-3, 2021. Initial reports of an overflow ...