Did you know the word "hippopotamus" comes from the ancient Greek for "river horse"? But don't let that fool you; this big, lumbering mammal is anything but a horse. In fact, it's one of the most ...

The hippo house has been temporarily closed “so that our expert keepers can keep a ... The remains of woman who disappeared ...

Moo Deng is getting a lot of people excited about pygmy hippos and that's great news for the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston.

Colombia's hippo population could hit 1,400 by 2040, according to numbers cited by the same publication. After Escobar was ...

A family on safari in South Africa's Kruger National Park witnessed a rare and intense battle between a pride of lions and a ...

The hippo house has been temporarily closed “so that our expert keepers can keep a close eye on mum and baby at this sensitive time,” the zoo said in a message alongside a video of the ...

However, officers may have never encountered a situation quite like this one, where they were faced with a large model hippo, at one point even mounted by a young man. The incident occurred around ...

Moo Deng, which translates as Bouncy Pork, chomped on Trump pretty much immediately, while a bigger hippo in the pen tucked in to the Harris cake. Housed at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi ...

The clip then showed Moo Deng eating the fruit cake that spelled out Trump, while the larger hippo in Moo Deng’s pen chowed down on the Harris watermelon. Of course, the three-month-old hippo is ...

An "incredibly rare" female baby hippopotamus has been born at Edinburgh Zoo. The tiny endangered pygmy hippo calf, named Haggis, arrived on 30 October and zookeepers said her personality was ...