The hippo’s foot and 10 ivory ornaments were seized from a 58-year-old female passenger at Cardiff Airport. During questioning, the woman told customs staff she had cleared a relative's house in ...

Fossil hobbits followed a simple motto: Walk, don’t run. That’s the implication of a new analysis of foot bones from an 18,000-year-old partial skeleton assigned to the controversial species ...

Hippo pods are hierarchical, with a dominant male associated with a harem of around 20 females. ... Some are killed for their tusk-like teeth, which can grow up to a foot or longer.

The pygmy hippo measures only five feet in length and three feet in height, compared to the common hippo's 16.5-foot maximum length and five-foot height.

The previous pygmy hippopotamus age record was held by a male named “Rif,” who was housed in Rostov-on-Don in Russia and passed away in ... and a 13,000-square-foot pen complete with a pond, ...