Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, because the remote, difficult-to-navigate region where the fossils were ...

Remember Moo Deng? The pygmy hippo that broke the Internet with her adorable cuteness? Well, there’s a new baby pygmy hippo in town—at Arizona’s Wildlife World Zoo in Litchfield Park, to be exact—and ...

Moo Deng is back in the spotlight — but not for the heartwarming reasons as before. Conservationist Siranudh Scott brought attention back on to the viral pet after calling the pygmy hippo’s living ...

A tiny possum with an extremely long finger and a new kind of gliding marsupial have been identified in West Papua. The two species were only previously known in Western science from the fossil record ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — An Arizona zoo has welcomed a new baby pygmy hippo and is offering the public a chance to name the new addition.

Arizona’s Wildlife World Zoo has revealed the name of its new baby pygmy hippo after receiving thousands of votes from visitors and fans. The animal, born Jan. 22, has been named Jellybean after the ...

Pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps) are among the ocean's most enigmatic inhabitants—rarely seen and largely unstudied. They live far offshore in small groups, diving in search of squid and fish.

Two Arizona resorts and one Phoenix Hawaiian BBQ spot were among the places cited by health code inspectors in this week's Dirty Dining report. The city of Phoenix will restrict some of its most ...

SINGAPORE – As the rare pygmy blue whale began to surface in the waters off Kupang in Indonesia, the researchers knew they had mere seconds to deploy their satellite tag before the marine mammal dove ...

I traveled to northern Namibia to experience life with the Himba tribe — one of the most isolated cultures in the world. What ...

The question of women’s inheritance rights in tribal communities remains unresolved. Customary laws of most tribal communities deny absolute property rights to their women, and the Hindu Succession ...