The eleven bodies were believed to have belonged to an important family in the Middle Kingdom period when pharaohs Amenemhet ...

Archaeologists made the discovery of the tomb which is the first of its kind due to the fact that it dates back nearly 4,000 ...

Named for the Egyptian goddess of the Nile River, Anuket is the child of mother Lola and father Nile. She is Nile’s first daughter. Zoo visitors can now see her in the Pygmy Hippo nursing suite ...

Topeka? A longtime inhabitant of the Topeka Zoo has died. Peka Sue, a 47-year-old Nile River hippopotamus, died Sunday night. Zoo Director Mike Coker says the animal was one of the oldest hippos ...

Nile hippos, also known as river hippos or river horses, are vegetarians and can weigh as much as 4,000 pounds. Males are typically much larger than females. Although hippos spend much of their ...

Hope will be on exhibit alternating with Maji. There are two species of hippopotamus the Nile River hippo and the Pygmy hippo. Both species secrete a protective mucous through their skin to keep ...

While all rivers are important for people and wildlife who live nearby, the Nile looms especially large, both literally and figuratively. As arguably the longest river in the world, it has been ...

(WSFA) - A new baby pygmy hippopotamus has been born at the Montgomery ... She has been named Anuket after the Egyptian goddess of the Nile river. After spending her first month of life behind ...

The Montgomery Zoo this week announced the birth of a female pygmy hippopotamus. Anuket was actually born on Feb. 9 but has spent the last month bonding with her mother behind the scenes ...