Given their huge size, there is no question as to why hippopotamuses are one of the most feared mammals. Apart from their bulky appearance, they also have an odd-looking mouth that features huge, ...

A hippopotamus-size predator that lived 265 million years ago was unexpectedly speedy for such a bulky beast. Scientists previously viewed the dinosaur-like reptile Anteosaurus as slow and plodding ...

It took the fanciful imagination of François-Xavier Lalanne to place a hippo in a bathroom. Crafted by the king of fauna furniture himself, a suite of bronze bath designs in strikingly realistic ...

In 1953, a 10-year-old star named Gayla Peevey gave the world something to yearn for when she recorded the classic song, "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas." Nearly 70 years later, a zoo in Virginia ...