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Celebrate summer in style at ZOOFARI 2025, the Saint Louis Zoo’s biggest adults-only fundraiser. Enjoy live music, 30+ local ...
The St. Louis Zoo was right outside the path of an EF-3 tornado and managed to keep hundreds of animals, insects, reptiles ...
Zoo staff recounted the fast-paced efforts of numerous zookeepers when the tornado significantly damaged the butterfly wing.
ST. LOUIS — The Missouri Botanical ... eliminate as part of his administration’s cuts. The zoo was one of two dozen organizations to sign a March 20 letter urging Congress to protect the ...
Thursday's incident marked the second time the bear escaped this month. Ben, the Saint Louis Zoo’s resident Andean Bear, has had a busy February. On Thursday, the 4-year-old bear escaped his ...
After escaping twice from the St. Louis Zoo, a Houdini-like Andean bear named Ben will be moving to a Texas zoo, where staff hope a moat will keep him safely enclosed. Ben made headlines breaking ...
The American burying beetle is no longer found in Illinois, but researchers with the Saint Louis Zoo are working to bring the environmentally significant species back to Missouri and surrounding ...
St. Louis Zoo officials say they are working to find a way to keep an Andean bear named Ben inside his enclosure after he escaped Thursday for the second time this month. The bear was outside for ...
ST. LOUIS – The Saint Louis Zoo has closed two exhibits “until further notice” as a precaution after a wild wood duck found dead on zoo grounds last week tested positive for avian influenza.
One person died and two others were pulled from the wreckage of a partially collapsed church on Friday, after severe storms including a possible tornado swept through St. Louis.