Speedboating Santas in Australia, a rare swimming hippo baby, and tiger-striped Chinese dancers star in this week's best news photos.
... out the DNA data not only ignores important information, it implies that the evolution of swimming evolved independently in hippos and whales, when it may have evolved only once in a common ancestor.
CALGARY, Alberta, March 23 (UPI) -- Canadian and U.S. professors are disputing each other's view of the family tree involving hippos, whales and pigs.
Ancient Madagascan hippos have shed light on the origins of the small brain of the 1-metre-tall human, known as the hobbit, scientists at the Natural History Museum report in the journal Nature today. ...
A BBC presenter has had a close encounter with a dangerous wild hippo, which cornered him on a river in South Africa.
... persistent and bruising drought is having a serious impact on the country's wildlife, one of its main tourist attractions, obliging the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to feed hippos to keep them alive.
African zoologists are in Colombia to advise local authorities on what to do with dozens of hippos roaming around the abandoned zoo of late drug lord Pablo Escobar in the north of the country.
Archaeologists have found a new set of bones from a giant, hippo-like animal that once lived in Australia.
... of love, hidden during the era of the Roman Empire's transition to Christianity, discovered in Hippos (Sussita) *During the tenth season of excavations, under the directorship of Prof. Arthur Segal ...
Several hippopotamuses and at least four lions in the Masai Mara National Reserve have died after ingesting a powerful insecticide, conservationists say.
Giant kangaroo-like beasts and thousand-pound marsupial hippos went extinct on the Australian island more than 40,000 years ago from hunting, not climate change, scientists say.
... wild animals or compared them with respect to physical attributes (e.g., "Which are heavier, elephants or hippos?"). In still another study, participants judged how similar one object is to another (e ...
... , where the overall brain size is affected but structures retain the proportionality. The function of the HIPPO pathway also has implications for brain size evolution, which is of great interested to ...
Africa's largest undercover investigation of wildlife crime may lead police to smugglers, Kenyan officials said this week. But conservationists claim such stings are futile.
Scientists reveal a role for the Hippo signaling pathway in the regulation of vertebrate neural development, identifying new factors and potential therapeutic targets that may be involved in ...
