Cute creatures going viral is nothing new. Seven years ago, the Cincinnati Zoo wanted TIME to name Fiona the hippo Person—er, Animal?—of the Year. But 2024 seems to be on a different level of ...

If we don’t protect them now, hippos may disappear forever.” The United States has imported more hippo parts, which include teeth, tusks, leather products made from the animal’s skins and other forms ...

The “hoofstock” category of animals covers more than just horses or cows. Hippos have fingernail-like hooves on their webbed feet. Two-month-old pygmy hippo Moo Deng with her keeper at Khao ...