The Kansas City Zoo is mourning the loss of a 20-year-old rhinoceros. On Friday, the Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium said Imara, a ...

The Kansas City Zoo announced today, November 8, that a 20-year-old Eastern Black Rhinoceros named Imara has died.

The Kansas City Zoological Society, formed in 1907, had grand ambitions—to build the largest zoological gardens in the world. And Swope Park, sitting on land bequeathed by Colonel Thomas Swope in 1896 ...

A rare creature made his “stunning debut” at the North Carolina Zoo — but he wasn’t on exhibit. Instead, the “snow-white” ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - An older penguin at the Kansas City Zoo is thriving after her care team crafted a custom wetsuit for her. According to Whitney Geslois, a senior animal care ...

"The zoo says that the decision to euthanize the female rhino was made on November 2 after she was diagnosed with renal ...

(KCTV) - Life-size replicas of the prehistoric ancestors of animals in the Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium are set to take over during the summer of 2025. The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium announced on ...

The Species Survival Plan recommended moving Mandaazi to Wichita, where he will hopefully father more western lowland gorillas.

The Kansas City Zoo opened in 1909 with a modest collection of animals: four lions, three monkeys, a fox, a wolf, a badger, a lynx, an eagle and some other birds. Since then, it has expanded to ...

By the late 1800s, Kansas City was beginning to see itself as a major metropolitan area. City leaders believed that to fully become one a zoo would be needed. The Kansas City Zoological Society ...