Devastating news from the ABQ BioPark on Sunday. Moe, the male Nile hippo and recent father to Maisy, has passed away. Moe just celebrated his 52nd birthday last ...

The Albuquerque BioPark is sharing fun facts about how Karen the hippo gave birth to Maisy. The BioPark says Nile hippo ...

Any Southeast Asian adventure, whether a shorter trip or a cross-country odyssey, will likely take in some of the region’s 25,000-plus islands. You’ll find plenty of coral-sand bays, seaside bars and ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

Colombian photographer Édgar Jiménez walks around a room exhibiting “Adam and Eve,” his portrait of two of the first hippopotamuses that were brought to Colombia by late ...

The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ingenious solution. A scientist examines a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) profile on ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like. Paul Sereno and his colleagues spent years painstakingly preparing this ...

The signs were there but subtle. Dustin Chandler never did his homework. He was labeled lazy at school. It wasn’t until years later when his mother, now working at a pediatric clinic, watched him ...

There are several unwritten “rules” when it comes to alcohol: whiskey makes you aggressive, wine turns you emotional, and tequila? It’s the devil in a bottle. But in recent years, tequila’s reputation ...

Beyond Machu Picchu, these destinations reveal a side of the country that most visitors miss—from volcanic cities and canyon villages to sacred lakes and jungle getaways. As an alternative to visiting ...

The Red Sea was thought to host ecosystems resilient to warming waters, but a 2023 heatwave proves otherwise. A juvenile Red Sea anemonefish, also called a clownfish, looks out from between the ...

The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was it? A sixth-century Byzantine mosaic depicts an amphibious monster—though ...