Drought and conflict compound the threat to wildlife in eastern DR Congo.

Anthrax killed 28 hippos in Virunga National Park, clogging the Semuliki River and prompting warnings to communities near Lake Edward.

The hippopotamus spends much of its day half-submerged in African rivers and lakes, looking placid, even comical, as it ...

Dec. 8 (UPI) --A serial Guinness World Record-breaker teamed up with his young son to earn the title for the fastest time to clear Hungry Hungry Hippos by a team of two. David Rush, an Idaho resident ...

The movie’s title raises one very particular question unrelated to unpassed legislation: Is this movie about man-eating hippos in fact the Hungry Hungry Hippos movie long-prophesized by the internet?

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 — ...

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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' huge tusks and wide gape restrict grinding jaw movements, making their chewing inefficient, according to a study by Annika Avedik and Marcus Clauss at the University of Zurich, Switzerland ...

Compared with Africa’s other big animals, hippos have been relatively neglected in scientific research. Partly, this is because they’re hard to study and dangerous to encounter. Hippos tend to live in ...