World Hippo Day serves as a reminder of their importance in the ecosystem and the need for their protection. For centuries, ...

Animals need to find a way to stop UV reaching their skin cells, and a physical obstacle like fur or feathers is brilliant. But if you’re as hairless as a hippo how do you protect yourself from ...

Since their skin is very sensitive, they spend most of the day wallowing in mud or water ... essentially “bouncing” along the muddy bottom. On land, a hippo can run up to 19 miles per hour, and their ...

A handwritten obituary for a hippo by a zookeeper in East China’s Nanjing has gone viral as it detailed the hippo’s life, ...

Systemic sclerosis causes the skin to tighten and harden resulting ... The research examined the Hippo signaling pathway, an evolutionarily conserved signaling pathway that plays a complex role ...

Wildlife groups argue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to put common hippos on the endangered list to protect against U.S. trade in body parts.