Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whichever decade you grew up in, chances are the phrase “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” evokes nostalgia. The iconic wildlife TV ...

An analysis of the miracle of flight from the soaring condors of the Andes to the backward-flying fairy terns of Midway. At the base of Devils Tower near Horse Heaven Pass in Wyoming, is a wilderness ...

-Jim Fowler, who with the zoologist Marlin Perkins introduced generations of television viewers to wild animals filmed in their natural habitats on the long-running documentary series “Wild Kingdom,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...