The six-year-old reptile is the first one to live in the newly renovated Charles H. Hoessle Herpetarium, who Charlie is named after. This marks the first Komodo dragon in St. Louis in over 12 years.

Visitors to the Saint Louis Zoo’s Charles H. Hoessle Herpetarium over the past few weeks will have noticed a long black curtain covering one wall of the building’s main atrium. It’s there to protect ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KFVS) - Anyone can now visit the young Mexican spider monkeys living at the St. Louis Zoo, but their journey to get there was traumatic. Four young spider monkeys are now happily ...

ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) - Anyone can now visit the young Mexican spider monkeys living at the Saint Louis Zoo, but their journey was far from easy. Four young spider monkeys are now happily ...

The Saint Louis Zoo's new Komodo dragon habitat opens this month at the Charles H. Hoessle Herpetarium, and the habitat's first resident is 6-year-old Charlie.

ST. LOUIS – The Saint Louis Zoo is welcoming a new resident. Charlie, a Komodo dragon, came to the zoo Sept. 20 from the Bronx Zoo in New York through the Komodo Dragon Species Survival Plan to ...