To be young and carefree like a baby goat, gleefully exploring his paddock playground for the very first time, is the stuff of dreams! One could also describe this scene as heaven on earth or total ...

The mountain pygmy possum, a tiny nocturnal marsupial, was once known only from Ice Age fossils. Today, we know where its 2,000 remaining individuals are holding on. In 1895, deep within the limestone ...

Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand hopes to get "more income to support activities that will make the animals' lives better" with the baby pygmy hippo trademark Better get those Moo Deng memes out of ...

Poppy, the pygmy hippo who quickly garnered national attention after her birth, turned 1 year old on Tuesday. She was born Dec. 9, 2024, to parents Iris and Corwin. More than 100,000 people from ...

The 4-year-old first-time mom Mabel welcomed a male calf on April 9, and the baby has since been "surpassing" milestones Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He has ...

A pygmy hippo in Southern California broke two age-related world records this year alone. Hannah Shirley, who lives at the ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— Following multiple petitions and lawsuits, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today again protected the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl as threatened under the Endangered Species Act after ...

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WWBT) - Poppy, the popular pygmy hippo at Metro Richmond Zoo, celebrated her first birthday recently. Poppy was born Dec. 9 and became an immediate internet sensation after her ...

BOSTON - Moo Deng is social media's newest darling. The baby pygmy hippo first captured the hearts of gawkers at her zoo in Thailand, and then she devoured the world wide web faster than a head of ...

BOISE, Idaho— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced that the pygmy rabbit may warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. The pygmy rabbit is the world’s smallest rabbit and is ...

A primate species that looks like a living, breathing version of the Furby electronic toy has been found alive in the forested highlands of an Indonesian island for the first time in more than 70 ...

A cute-as-a-button pygmy hippo is in the spotlight, a month after the tot was born at Australia's Taronga Zoo. Named "Kambiri" (Nigerian for "allow me to join this family"), the female infant was born ...