Thousands of fans gathered at Thailand's Khao Kheow Open Zoo Thursday to celebrate the first birthday of Moo Deng, the viral ...

Just as memes of the viral hippo range from sweet to spooky, art history is rich with terrifying, adorable, and bizarre depictions of the amphibious creatures. by Isabella Segalovich September 25 ...

Hippopotamuses are some of the largest creatures on earth and the deadliest animals in Africa. These territorial behemoths may look cute and cuddly (especially as babies), but they have an extremely ...

Moo Deng, the viral pygmy baby hippo, marked her first birthday with a 44 pound cake at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand.

The pygmy hippo that launched a thousand memes wandered around her enclosure at Thailand’s Khao Kheow Open Zoo, took a few ...

Their narrow range can present a problem for hippo conservation. “Like the tropical polar bear” The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classified hippos as vulnerable in 2008, and ...

Update, Tuesday, Feb. 15: Today is National Hippo Day! ... She weighs only 29 pounds, much lower than the range of recorded birth weights for her species, which is 55-120 pounds.

A cute-as-a-button pygmy hippo is in the spotlight, a month after the tot was born at Australia's Taronga Zoo. Named "Kambiri" (Nigerian for "allow me to join this family"), the female infant was ...