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Greek scientists digitally reconstruct skull of 200,000-year-old dwarf hippopotamus
Hippopotamus creutzburgi lived on the island of Crete during the Early to early Middle Pleistocene, more than 200,000 years ago. Despite going extinct, many remains of this species have been fossi ...
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U.S. Endangered Species Act Protection Sought for Hippos
One of Africa’s most recognizable species, the common hippopotamus faces a high risk of extinction and is disappearing from the wild. With only as few as 115,000 adult hippos remaining in the wild in ...