A spokesperson confirmed with USA TODAY that at least 40 to 50 hippos were found deceased at Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Reuters first reported the news.

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Pebble poop—small, hard pellet-like stool that look like pebbles—is usually a sign of constipation. You can usually go back to having normal stools by increasing your fiber and fluid intake. Severe ...

Virunga National Park director Emmanuel De Merode told Reuters in a report published on Tuesday, April 8, that at least 50 hippos and other large animals, including buffalo, have been killed as a ...

NASA is offering $3 million to anyone who can invent a way to “recycle” dozens of bags of poop astronauts left on the moon more than half a century ago. The space agency wants to come up with ...

At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been found dead in Africa's oldest park, the Virunga National Park in eastern DR Congo. Test results from the carcasses have revealed the animals ...

The deaths represent a major loss for the park, which has been working to increase the number of hippos in recent decades after poaching and war reduced the population from over 20,000 to a few ...

They grow up so fast. And so big. Hippos, that is. Poppy, a pygmy hippo born into the Metro Richmond Zoo in December, has taken her first steps outside. She’s now viewable to the public at the ...

Lake Edward once housed the largest hippo population in the world, a figure decimated by conflict since 1994. Getty Images This beastly tragedy comes as strife is felt across the Democratic ...

Most recently, this included the curious behavior of a herd of hippos following the death of an old bull. The scene unfolds in Katavi: Africa’s Fallen Paradise, a new series being aired by PBS ...