St. Louis Zoo

Another long-awaited construction project is coming to Forest Park.The southwest entrance to the park off Skinker Boulevard is closing Wednesday for six…

In a community garden in central St. Louis, Saint Louis University biologist Gerardo Camilo walked methodically, scanning the plants while holding a…

For St. Louisans of a certain age, the statue outside the herpetarium at the St. Louis Zoo depicts a familiar figure: Charles H. Hoessle — better known as…

For five years, state officials and researchers have been trying to bring back an endangered beetle species that disappeared in Missouri more than 40…

Anyone who has watched a lot of Saturday morning television likely has seen Taz, the voracious Tasmanian devil of Looney Tunes fame, a loud and voracious…

Scientists say frogs are one of the first "canaries in the coal mine" for climate change. That’s because they absorb a lot of what’s in the environment…

Updated 1:00 p.m. March 4 with Zoo's offer withdrawn:The St. Louis Zoo’s plan to buy Grant’s Farm from a Busch family trust has fallen through. In a…

Climate change is causing the Earth to change in drastic ways. Global temperatures are rising, oceans are warming, ice sheets are shrinking and the…

A Saint Louis Zoo scientist is partly to thank for the recovery of three subspecies of foxes native to the Channel Islands off the coast of…

Volunteer Lisa Houska is hunkered down next to a tall cyclone fence at the Endangered Wolf Center in Eureka. She’s peering at a hillside, observing a…