This month’s The Wild Side focuses on endangered animals at the Dickerson Park Zoo.

Dickerson Park Zoo will remain closed today after a hailstorm caused significant damage yesterday, killing one animal and ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A day after severe storms damaged communities in ...

During the worst hailstorms ever to hit Missouri on Tuesday night, staff at the Dickerson Zoo Park tried to move animals ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — After severe storms hit Springfield, Dickerson Park Zoo closed its doors for a few days to clean up storm damage. Today, the zoo announced its reopening. Dickerson Park Zoo will ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield is welcoming a new 8-year-old Asian elephant. The elephant, named Hugo, arrived Friday from the Endangered Ark Foundation, a private nonprofit and ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo., April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- For more than four years, the journey through Dickerson Park Zoo—Springfield, Missouri's most exotic 1.2 mile walk—has been a rather arduous one.

An emu was killed after large, softball-sized hail slammed a Missouri zoo during a severe weather event Tuesday morning. The 21-year-old emu was at Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield when a dangerous ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Zookeepers at Springfield’s Dickerson Park Zoo mourn the loss of an elderly colobus monkey. Morgan, 30, died on June 10. He was the fourth-oldest colobus in an Association of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Mother’s Day is here, and Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield wants to give everyone a chance to celebrate Mom. That’s why the zoo is offering free admission for all moms on ...

A hailstorm of these proportions is “unusual” but not unheard of in Missouri at this time of year, one expert says ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The SaveNature.Org Conservation Prize will be awarded to Springfield’s Dickerson Park Zoo on September 1 for different achievements and leadership including raising funds for a ...