The third-oldest zoo in the U.S. is evolving to embrace a mission of conservation and education. Here's how that affects the animals you see.

Penguins will march back into the Roger Williams Park Zoo, where grizzly bears and grey wolves could someday join them. Polar bears, too? That's a complicated, more expensive question, but the zoo ...

Baby polar bear Kobe performs water acrobatics in its pool at Roger Williams Park Zoo. The popular exhibit closed in 2005. 1978-1980: The zoo temporarily closes to embark on a two-year upgrade ...

The Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence said it has lost a beloved animal. "The Zoo is heartbroken to share the passing of our beautiful 27-year-old female moon bear, Gracie," the zoo said.

a popular polar bear exhibit, a boardwalk through a native wetlands area (today the Feinstein Junior Scholar Wetlands Trail), and a North American bison exhibit. 1986: Roger Williams Park Zoo ...

Roger Williams Park ... four or five years, the zoo will move to phase two, which calls for bringing in brown bears and gray wolves. The Providence zoo once had a polar bear exhibit.