Journalist Joshua Hammer–author of a captivating piece in the current issue of Smithsonian Magazine, entitled “Pablo Escobar’s Abandoned Hippos are Wreaking Havoc in the Columbian Jungle”—recalls how, ...

Forrest Galante has bad luck with hippos. He was nearly killed twice by the animals while growing up as a kid in Zimbabwe. So it’s fair to say Galante was treading cautiously this winter as he ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered that hippos get significant airtime when they're at full-trot, able to lift their enormous bodies off the ground for around 15% of their stride. It's ...

A federal judge has given the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service three more years to determine whether the common hippopotamus should be protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Wild hippos are ...

BOSTON - Moo Deng is social media's newest darling. The baby pygmy hippo first captured the hearts of gawkers at her zoo in Thailand, and then she devoured the world wide web faster than a head of ...

Is there anything more terrifying than a creature weighing 3,600 kilogrammes flying towards you through the air? Perhaps not - and it is a reality. Well, sort of. Scientists have discovered that ...

These days, the only joy left on the website formerly known as Twitter might be Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo born this July at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand. Why is the government dropping ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo — Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos in Virunga, Africa's oldest national park, which is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east, the ...

The disease has been connected to the deaths of animals at Virunga National Park in Africa's Democratic Republic of the Congo Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The ...