Explosions are messy at the best of times, but when the thing exploding is an animal, or part of an animal, it rarely ends ...

Now that Sandra Boynton’s books have crossed generations of child-rearing — and her first, “Hippos Go Berserk!,” is ...

Sharks have long hogged the spotlight in horror cinema’s “animal attack” niche. We’ve gotten Thrash, Deep Water, and Chum in 2026 alone; last year gave us Fear Below, Dangerous Animals, Into The Deep, ...

Colombia is planning to cull a population of wild hippos, the offspring of the drug lord’s pets, dividing a town where hippos are the main draw. Colombia is planning to cull a population of wild ...

DORADAL, Colombia—In a small town in central Colombia, the grunt of hippos has become part of the soundscape. Every afternoon in Doradal, locals and tourists gather at a lake on the edge of town. They ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

It is “one of the strangest conundrums in modern zoological history”, said The Guardian: “what to do with the descendants of Pablo Escobar’s hippos?” The animals, which the drug kingpin imported into ...

PUERTO TRIUNFO, Colombia — Along the Magdalena River, one of Colombia’s primary arteries, fishermen move with wary precision. From the silty, tea-colored current, hippopotamuses can surface without ...

The wildlife rescuer son of billionaire Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, is publicly pleading with the Colombian government to let his organization take ownership of 80 wild hippopotamuses marked ...

An Indian billionaire's son offered on Tuesday to take the so-called "cocaine hippos" descended from those introduced to Colombia by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, rather than have the animals killed.

Escobar’s private zoo is turning into a wildlife crisis. Escobar imported hippos for prestige; they multiplied after his death, now numbering about 200. Hippos harm local ecosystems, face few ...