Most people don’t get a hippopotamus for Christmas at all, so we feel lucky to have received two over the years,” zoo ...

Celebrity pygmy hippo Moo Deng has company. A new baby born at the Metro Richmond Zoo will get her name from a public poll.

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

The mother Iris gave birth to the female calf on Dec. 9 following a seven-month gestation, zoo officials said. The newborn, ...

According to the zoo, the pygmy hippo is an endangered species native to the swamps and rivers of West Africa. Less than ...

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

One such hippopotamus species was H. creutzburgi. Gerakakis says, "Hippopotamus creutzburgi lived on Crete during the Early-to-early Middle Pleistocene. During cold phases of the Pleistocene ...

A female pygmy hippo named Iris gave birth to a healthy female calf on December 9 at the Metro Richmond Zoo, officials said.

A female pygmy hippopotamus calf was born at the Metro Richmond Zoo in early December, marking the third calf of the endangered species to be born at the zoo in the last five years, officials said.