Hippos may look harmless, but their poop plays a deadly role in their ecosystem. This video explores how their waste can ...

Hippos may look lazy in the water, but their poop creates one of the deadliest natural threats in their environment. By releasing massive amounts of waste into rivers, they deplete oxygen levels and ...

Hippo poop is a plentiful resource. According to a new study, it’s also good for the environment, as the semi-aquatic mammal is crucial pipeline for the element silicon.

This is equal parts disgusting and hypnotic. We’ve seen hippos using their tails to spray their poop around, but we’ve only seen it on land—and the hippo wasn’t pressed right up against ...

In the Mara River, about 4,000 hippos leave behind more than nine tons of dung each day, which can lead to fish being suffocated.

Along with using our understanding of living hippos to support the death-by-poop hypothesis, there’s also some good geological evidence for this scenario.

Due to the hippo's proximity to the wall, the diarrhea ricocheted back towards us, sending people running in all directions as they tried to avoid the hailstorm of hippo dung that was raining down ...

52,800 metric tons is a whole lot of hippo poop. When it gets dry, hippos congregate in the remaining water and crap.

The hippos are poisoning other wildlife with their toxic poop and urine.

Team Fiona at Cincinnati Zoo has raised this little hippopotamus girl since she was born prematurely on Jan. 24.

Hippo poop is rich in silica, a mineral that small unicellular algae called diatoms need to build their skeletons. (Chris Dutton) ...

In the Mara River, more than 4,000 hippos excrete 9.3 tons of waste every day. When it decomposes, it depletes oxygen levels and creates chemicals toxic to fish, potentially killing them.