This might sound like some kind of punishment or endurance challenge today, but in Ancient Rome this was just a standard ...

Reconstruction of Purussarus neivensis attacking Pericotoxodon platignathus. (Wilson et al., J. Vertebr. Paleontol., ...

The Cambrian explosion may have been fueled by poop. The first animals on Earth emerged about 600 million years ago, and 60 million years later, those simple early animals evolved in wildly different ...

Once he started charging after us, the adrenaline was unbelievable,” said Oznur Bell, who took the video of the close encounter.

Colombia has around 200 so-called "cocaine hippos" living in the wild, all of which descended from a colony brought to South America by slain cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar.

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German star and TV personality Enie van de Meiklokjes is the honorary sponsor for the animal Zoo Berlin Zoo Berlin named its new baby pygmy hippo Brötchen, meaning "bread roll," due to her small, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mother hippo and calf© "Mother hippo and calf" by Tambako the Jaguar is licensed under BY-ND 2.0. The post Why Hippo Battles Are ...

Hungry is a movie that knows exactly what it is. While that might sound like a backhanded endorsement, indicative of a movie that never aspires to be more than it should be, I mean it in the most ...

We've seen people face off against sharks, bears, bears on cocaine, gators, gators on meth, wolves, snakes, snakes on planes, lions, dogs, apes, and even giant spiders — but one of the world's most ...

NAIROBI — A baby hippo only needs a few things to break the internet: a good story, and a good amount of cuteness. Bumpy has both, in abundance. And the world is in desperate need. A rescued baby ...