Few animals look as calm and harmless as a hippo lounging in the water, but appearances can be deceiving. Dangerously so, in ...

Hippos are large, semi-aquatic mammals with a barrel-shaped body, short legs, and a large head. They have gray or brownish-gray skin, with pinkish areas around their eyes, mouth, and ears. Hippos are ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a new study is rewriting that history. Utilizing ancient DNA and reliable ...