Whichever decade you grew up in, chances are the phrase “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” evokes nostalgia. The iconic wildlife TV series, originally starring Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler, ran on NBC ...

Marlin Perkins came to the St. Louis Zoo in 1926 to work with the reptile collection. He became curator of the Buffalo Zoo in 1938. As director of Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo in 1949, he created the ...

ST. LOUIS -- Two artificially inseminated Mexican gray wolves recently birthed a combined eight living pups at a research site founded by late naturalist Marlin Perkins, marking perhaps the first time ...

Marlin Perkins was struggling to keep his head out of the murky swamp water as an enormous snake tried to pull him under. He had survived run-ins with polar bears, wildebeests and hyenas, but this ...

Perkins joins officials of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Wyoming where research is being done on what effect exploitation of mining resources might have on the wildlife. Tells the story of a ...

For the rest of the day, expect overcast guys through mid morning, turning mostly sunny by midday. There will be a northerly wind of 10 to 15 mph, and high temperature temperatures should reach the ...