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. On ...

Three newborn Chacoan peccaries are frolicking about at the Dickerson Park Zoo.

SPRINGFIELD, Missouri - 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 ...

A 21-year-old emu named Adam was killed at a Missouri zoo after sustaining head trauma from softball-sized hail that battered the city of Springfield during a historic storm. Adam, a female emu at the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — During the worst hailstorms ever to hit Missouri on Tuesday night, staff at the Dickerson Zoo Park tried to move animals inside, including Adam, a 21-year-old female emu — but an ...

Reigning over Missouri with plenty of Americana, Springfield is an ideal destination for Midwestern road trips, and it is the ...

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

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- For more than four years, the journey through Dickerson Park ...