Chester Zoo’s largest-of-its-kind African savannah opens to visitors - The vast 22-acre habitat has become home to 57 species ...

Chester Zoo will open the largest zoo habitat ever built in the UK next week, a 22.5-acre development named Heart of Africa, ...

It's one of the largest zoo projects ever undertaken in the UK - see our gallery of photos from the new Heart of Africa ...

Would you dig through animal excrement if you knew you would find a diamond? Wildlife researchers at the University of Oxford ...

For history buffs, the city walls are a must-see. The two-mile-long structure is the oldest and longest in Britain and is the ...

Next to Heart of Africa is where the eagerly-anticipated new Chester Zoo safari lodges will be found too. Known as The Reserve, the accommodation element of the project is set to open in August ...

Chester Zoo is set to unveil one of the UK's largest and most ambitious habitats, where giraffes, zebras and antelopes will roam freely together. The Heart of Africa zone, which spans over 17 ...

Scientists at Chester Zoo are testing a "tail-tagging" technique to help reintroduce a rare species into the wild. Last week, conservationists at Chester Zoo trialled attaching dummy transmitters ...

Dr Rhiannon Bolton, a researcher on the project from Chester Zoo, said: “It’s a case of how can we, en masse, collect living cells in as many species as we can to maintain diversity that we ...

A rare "dancing lemur" has been born at Chester Zoo thanks to the determined efforts of conservationists. The critically endangered Coquerel’s sifaka has been pictured for the first time nestled ...

As a result, they have reportedly not only worked with mouse poo, but also elephant faeces. Dr Rhiannon Bolton, a researcher on the project from Chester Zoo, said: “It’s a case of how can we, en masse ...