A one-of-a-kind artifact recently found near the Sea of Galilee may shed new light on how early Christians practiced baptism in the ancient city of Hippos.

Found in a cathedral destroyed by an earthquake in 749, a unique liturgical object suggests the ceremony there featured three ...

Archaeologists uncover a unique marble bowl in a Byzantine church in ancient Hippos, Israel, offering new clues about early baptism rituals.

Additional discoveries made a the site included a bronze candelabrum and marble reliquary, both the largest of their kind to ...

In November 2023, the Colombian government announced its new plan to control Pablo Escobar’s “cocaine hippos” — a growing population of invasive hippos threatening Colombians and their environment.

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 ...

Zookeepers spend a lot of time managing large animals safely, but stepping near two agitated hippos is an especially risky ...

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 ...