Archaeologists have made a "significant discovery" of ancient pygmy hippo fossils on an island in Greece. The preserved remains, which date back to 350,000 B.C., were discovered on Crete, by ...

A study by researchers Nikolaos Gerakakis and Prof. Dimitrios Makris has successfully reconstructed the skull of an extinct dwarf hippopotamus that once roamed the island of Crete, using innovative 3D ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a new study is rewriting that history. Utilizing ancient DNA and reliable ...

Some of the oldest stone tools ever found have offered a rare glimpse into the lives of early humans and their relatives. An archaeological excavation on the shore of Lake Victoria in Kenya has ...

A new study has uncovered the likely cause behind the mysterious disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Researchers have concluded that ...