Reports of baby pygmy hippos in Thailand and in Richmond, Virginia, have garnered much attention for their respective zoos, ...

They found it was able to pull 1,141 times its own body weight, equivalent to a 70kg person lifting about 80 tonnes or 20 hippopotamuses. While it's hard to imagine a human carrying their weight ...

Descendants of survivors helped researchers identify 279 deportees and tell their stories. ‘We give previously faceless ...

While water prevents hippopotamuses from getting overheated, it doesn't offer much in the way of skin protection So, these semi-aquatic mammals secrete a viscous, reddish fluid, often mistaken for ...

Three college students found a way to take photos of the Mt. Lyell shrew, which has never been photographed in the 100 years ...

Beetles battling for mating rights, a bear stalking through the rainforest and a damselfly perched in front of a waterfall ...

For the first time in Europe, coral researchers have successfully fertilised coral eggs using frozen and thawed sperm.

The dinosaur was about as big as a Tyrannosaurus rex and had a unique nasal horn and symmetrical teeth that it used to eat ...

A battle of beetles has won this contest celebrating close-up, macro, and micro photography revealing amazing hidden wonders ...

Last year, photographer Frankie Adamson spent three days returning to a hippo carcass on the edge of the Masai Mara reserve ...

Here’s how it works. Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it! Take a look at our favorite space pictures here, and if you're wondering what happened to today in ...

The tombs were dated to the fifth century B.C., making them around 2,500 years old. They are believed to have been built by Sarmatians, a nomadic, horse-riding people who originated from modern-day ...