The artifact is the first sling bullet of its kind unearthed at the ancient city of Hippos, though archaeologists have found ...

“Sling bullets were a cheap munition, a hand-thrown projectile, used for millennia,” archaeologist and study co-author ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — World of Winter featured a twist on a familiar hippo-centric board game Sunday, played on a human-sized scale. Roughly 1,500 people were at Rosa Parks Circle for this year’s ...

Teams of six raced across an ice rink in sleds, scooping up balls in a fast-paced competition on Saturday at Rosa Park Circle ...

Zookeepers spend a lot of time managing large animals safely, but stepping near two agitated hippos is an especially risky situation. This widely shared video from Changsha, China, appears to show ...

The sling bullet found in 2025 at Hippos is the first inscribed bullet to be discovered at the site in 26 years of ...

Colombia on Tuesday began the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Two male hippos and one female ...

SYRACUSE, Utah -- Human hungry hippos, the balloon snatching race! Wait, that's not how the game's jingle goes? Well, it is now. Tap to watch if you're viewing on the news app. In the classic game ...

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 ...