Few animals look as calm and harmless as a hippo lounging in the water, but appearances can be deceiving. Dangerously so, in ...

South African authorities shut Kruger National Park on Thursday to day visitors, after several rivers that run through it ...

Flood warning raised to highest level with roads washed away and rain forcing evacuation of Kruger national park ...

Pope Leo plans to visit Angola as part of a multi-nation trip across Africa, the Vatican's ambassador to the country ...

Leo XIV’s “state of the world” address showed the new pope’s human and geopolitical sagacity, rooted in Leo’s thoroughly ...

Illegal artisanal mining, hunting, and deforestation in Liberia's protected national parks are putting one of the world's rarest species, the pygmy hippopotamus, at grave risk, according to the ...

As of December 2025, the Milwaukee County Zoo’s new indoor rhino and hippo habitats are officially open to the public. Known ...

Catherine Conybeare’s new biography reveals a bishop formed by two worlds, two languages, and a church struggling to ...

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For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a new study is rewriting that history. Utilizing ancient DNA and reliable ...

A team from The Wilderness Project has conducted a survey of hippos along Zambia’s Kafue River, one of the last strongholds of the species in Southern Africa. The expedition faced regular close ...