A study by researchers Nikolaos Gerakakis and Prof. Dimitrios Makris has successfully reconstructed the skull of an extinct ...

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 ...

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It is carved from ivory. The ancient Egyptians often made things from hippopotamus ivory because there used to be lots of hippos living by the Nile. The ancient Egyptians played Aseb on one side ...

Crocodiles and hippos were a common sight on The Nile during the Ancient Egyptian period. Hippos are not meat eaters but they can still be very dangerous to humans. In fact, some people think it ...

Researchers digitally reconstructed the skull of the ancient Hippopotamus creutzburgi, an extinct dwarf hippo of the Greek ...