Pablo Escobar's imported hippos have become an ecological threat in Colombia, growing to over 160 due to a lack of natural predators. Their aggressive behavior poses risks to humans, while their ...

Nevertheless, these chonky beasts may surprise you yet. Scientists at the Royal Veterinary College found hippos trot so fast they can become temporarily airborne. When these creatures reach their ...

Today’s lawsuit challenges the agency’s failure to make this critical determination. Hippos are in a precarious position in the wild, with population levels declining as much as 20% between 1996 and ...

A Colombian court on Friday called for the hunting of hippos, introduced to the country in the 1980s by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. The Administrative Court of Cundinamarca set a three-month ...

“The pygmy hippo is 10 times smaller than a common hippo.” The size of both hippos and pygmy hippos is rather impressive when you consider that each species is largely herbivorous. In the ...

Direct to your inbox every Friday morning. "They are the most dangerous, we had no idea there were hippos, otherwise we wouldn't have gone in the canoe." When asked what his advice would be to ...

The dead were among 130 hippos stranded for days in a pool along the Chobe River on the border with Botswana after the water in the pool evaporated, ministry spokesman Romeo Muyunda said. Spokesperson ...

Lead author Professor Corey Bradshaw, of Flinders University, said that mammals such as dwarf hippos and elephants may have been at the risk of disappearing because of “edible meat they provided ...

Thousands of years before a tiny pygmy hippopotamus from a zoo in Thailand named Moo Dang became an internet sensation, an extinct species of dwarf hippos (Phanourios minor) roamed a lush ...

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 ...

Colombia's hippopotamus population — all descendants of four hippos illegally imported by Pablo Escobar in the 1980s — can be legally hunted under a new court order. Officials in Bogota gave ...

Maddy is an editor and writer at IFLScience, with a degree in biochemistry from the University of York.