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 ...

Although there is a popular song requesting a hippopotamus for Christmas, the heat-loving giants aren't animals we'd expect to enjoy a snowy Christmas climate. But a surprising new discovery has ...

Karen Paolillo (with the skull of a hippo named Bob) watches over a hippo pod in remote Zimbabwe, where tensions flare. Paul Raffaele Because Africa's scarcest natural resource is water, ...

New research shows that hippos lived in central Europe tens of thousands of years longer than previously thought. Ancient DNA and radiocarbon dating confirm they survived in Germany’s Upper Rhine ...

Hippos roamed central Europe much later than previously thought, as 40,000 years ago, a new study of Ice Age fossils reveals. Scientists previously thought common hippos – Hippopotamus amphibius – ...