The illustrious Moo Deng has attracted a frenzy of attention. But in the wild, her species is quietly disappearing.

Residents of Yauri, a town in northwestern Nigeria, are celebrating after a rare and feared hippopotamus, along with its calf ...

You don't have to go to Thailand to see a pygmy hippo like viral sensation Moo Deng. You just have to visit a Valley zoo.

Internet darling Moo Deng’s influence doesn’t seem to be fading anytime soon as bakers all over the world have found that ...

Residents of a town in north-western Nigeria are celebrating after a rare but feared hippo - along with its calf - was killed ...

It’s a gut-wrenching concept: drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds ...

Habitat loss and degradation ... Act protections are essential to curbing the gruesome U.S. market for hippo products.” “Hippos are disappearing from Africa’s freshwater ecosystems, and lagging action ...

Where does the urge to glorify cute animals come from? Scientists share how Moo Deng's popularity reveals deeper truths about ...

which is native to West Africa. And while her fame grows, her relatives in the wild are becoming increasingly rare in their shrinking habitat. Pygmy hippos are the world's smallest species of ...

a pygmy hippo is essentially a smaller version of the common hippopotamus. Native to Africa, this species stands at half the height of a regular hippo and weighs less than a quarter of a full ...