Once part of Pablo Escobar’s private menagerie, a small group of hippos has grown into a large wild population roaming parts ...

With the release of Hungry, sharks can at long last rest now that a far more deadly animal is in the cinema's spotlight: ...

A roadside encounter between a hippo and rhinos looks like a fight in the making, but the wide gape and tense posturing ...

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In their homeland in Africa, they are responsible for more human deaths than almost any other animal, but in Colombia, hippopotami have become loved members of the local community and a tourist ...

They’re horny, horny hippos. The Colombian government wants to send Pablo Escobar’s so-called “cocaine hippos” to Mexico and India because the sexed-up mammals won’t stop procreating. The hippos — ...

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 ...

Colombia on Tuesday began the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Two male hippos and one female ...

She is the absolute cutest.

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Thanks to years of campaigning by wildlife conservation groups, it’s widely known that Africa’s ...

Hippos from Central Europe were assumed to have gone extinct around 115,000 years ago when the temperate conditions of the region transitioned into an icy one with the end of the last interglacial ...

The animal lovers at ZooEarthTV demonstrate how experienced hippos guide young calves through the basics of underwater diving ...