The Edinburgh Zoo has launched a cuteness contest between Haggis, its newborn pygmy hippo, and Moo Deng, the adorable mini ...

Move over, Pesto and Moo Deng—a new swoon-worthy baby animal just hit the internet. Last week, Scotland’s Edinburgh Zoo ...

Just when you thought Moo Deng was the only celebrity baby pygmy hippopotamus taking the world by storm in 2024, along comes another one. A new baby pygmy hippo in Scotland is following in three-m ...

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's Edinburgh Zoo announced their own tiny pygmy hippo, named Haggis, was born Oct. 30 ...

A baby pygmy hippo living at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand continues to become a viral sensation. The 2-month-old pygmy hippopotamus named Moo Deng was born in July, according to NBC News ...

Edinburgh Zoo playfully started (and then quickly ended) a rivalry with Moo Deng, Thailand’s viral sensation. Haggis is a ...

Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo, has been alive for less than four months. But since shooting to internet stardom, she has experienced the full life cycle of a meme: from feverish online fervor and ...

Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our species’ survival.

We won the owl 732,000 acres of critical habitat in 1999. But developers fought back in 2001, with the tacit support of the Bush administration, and their lawsuit seeking to remove the pygmy owl’s’ ...

“The first 30 days are critical for her development, so the pygmy hippo house will be closed for now to allow us to keep a close eye on mum and baby at this sensitive time.” The news comes hot ...

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 ...