Most people remember hippos from school as huge animals that spend much of their time in rivers. That simple image leaves out many surprising details about how they actually live. Researchers who ...

‘Hippos were once present across all of sub-Saharan Africa, but today their largest populations are found in East and Southern Africa, especially in countries like Zambia and Tanzania, with their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do hippos swim? Get to know more about the river horse's aquatic skills. The hippopotamus, commonly called "hippo," is the ...

About 14 of our 46 hippo videos showed at least brief periods of "non-support," as Muybridge termed it—becoming airborne with all four feet off the ground. The fastest sequences showed hippos getting ...

The lumbering hippopotamus is not exactly the incarnation of agility. Nevertheless, these chonky beasts may surprise you yet. Scientists at the Royal Veterinary College found hippos trot so fast they ...

Hippo poaching has recently intensified within some of Uganda’s 10 national parks, according to new evidence. Ranger reports and a new aerial survey show hippo numbers have dropped, and the bodies are ...

In 1872 Leland Stanford, the founder of California’s Stanford University, hired an eccentric inventor named Eadweard Muybridge to help resolve a supposed (but undocumented) bet: did a trotting horse’s ...