CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — Scores of folks gathered at the Metro Richmond Zoo to celebrate Poppy the pygmy hippo's birthday.

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Video by @cincinnatizooHippo eating #snowballs 🦛❄️⛄The Cincinnati Zoo is closing at 2pm today due to winter weather. Fiona and Fritz try a a snow cone! Due to long stretches of cold weather in ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

After Escobar’s downfall and the abandonment of the estate, some escaped from their ponds and made their way into the river.

Fifty years ago, weeks before the premiere of the show that would become “Saturday Night Live,” Chevy Chase had a camera test ...

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Columnist's top three experiences were the Chincoteague Pony Swim, Dollywood and Petersburg High's 50th reunion. Here's everywhere she visited.

The unusual items were confiscated under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which targets the smuggling of ...

The Milwaukee County Zoo completed the transformation of its homes for big African animals by opening a new rhino and hippo facility with a ribbon-cutting event Dec. 9. The new Ladish Co. Foundation ...

The Milwaukee County Zoo's new home for its rhinos and hippo opens to the public Dec. 9. The Ladish Co. Foundation Rhino Care Center is designed to bring the public "closer than ever" to the zoo's ...

Eight years ago, a duck fell from the nest where he was born, perched high above somewhere in the San Antonio Zoo. Most ducks would have fluttered down softly and eventually flown off, moving onto ...