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 ...

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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Kansas City Zoo is mourning the loss of a 20-year-old rhinoceros. On Friday, the Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium said Imara, a 20-year-old Eastern black rhinoceros ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There's a new joey about ready to hop around the Kansas City Zoo. The zoo announced Thursday the birth of Embley, the zoo's latest joey to mother Martha. Zoo officials are ...

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

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 ...