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 ...

The baby moose was stuck in the mud at the edge of Watts Lake in Alberta; Marlin Perkins was nosing his shiny red canoe through the cattails and saw the problem. Thwuck, thwuck, thwuck — Perkins, in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coca-Cola is toasting America’s 250th birthday with special mini-cans made right here in the Ozarks. 15 years after an EF-5 tornado tore through Joplin, the families who lost children, homes, and ...

Premiering in 1963 broadcast on prime-time from 1968-1971 and airing in syndication until 1988 the Emmy Award-winning Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom was one of the longest-running and most beloved ...

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 ...