These 20 weird but true animal facts will surprise you.

In what’s being called immensely good news for the African golden cat, often described as the continent’s most elusive and ...

From Homer to Philostratus, Ancient Greek sources describe Pygmies as dwarves at the world’s edge, fighting cranes and living ...

It is another way to take in all the bright sights of the season with Lights in Lincoln Park. Bill Fricke, Lincoln Park Zoo ...

To be young and carefree like a baby goat, gleefully exploring his paddock playground for the very first time, is the stuff ...

Like a Canadian looking for any opportunity to point out an actor or musician is Canadian, any Portland-based Mountain Goats obsessive will leap at the chance to tell you just how much the Rose City ...

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Hannah Shirley—the world’s oldest living pygmy hippopotamus in managed care—has celebrated her 52 nd birthday in style this with week with a very appropriately themed party. Born on November 22, 1973, ...

San Diego Humane Society’s Project Wildlife team has cared for Hannah since she was rescued in 2002. (Photo courtesy of San Diego Humane Society) Hannah Shirley, the world’s oldest living pygmy ...

When Venus Bontadelli and her husband moved to Powell, Wyoming, to be closer to family, they also hoped to find a reprieve from the "increasingly illiberal and imperious state of politics in ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — One of John Ball Zoo’s newest residents is making a splash during his public debut. Hugo, the nearly two-month-old pygmy hippo calf, had his first members-only preview on Monday, ...