Watch our resident Humboldt penguins see their renovated habitat for the first time 🐧 This spring, the outdoor space at Penguin and Puffin Coast was closed for several weeks while the Zoo's Facilities Management team was hard at work creating fixes and upgrades, including all new surfacing to help keep the penguins' feet healthy and a few new raised areas for easier penguin navigation around the habitat. Stop by the Zoo to visit these feathered friends! | Saint Louis Zoo

Ten years ago, the Saint Louis Zoo celebrated the hatching of the world's first successful zoo-bred Ozark hellbenders at the Zoo. Today, our hellbender nursery has 1,333 recent hatchlings of endangered Ozark and eastern hellbender salamanders! From October through December this year, 750 second-generation Saint Louis Zoo-bred Ozark hellbenders hatched at the Charles H. Hoessle Herpetarium. In addition to this exciting progress, the Missouri Department of Conservation also brought Ozark and easte