Rising sales this fall gave a boost to Sotheby’s and Christie’s, spurring younger bidders to seek out luxury goods as older ...

This week, we honor a conceptualist who made the ordinary human, a wide-ranging photographer, and a filmmaker who made space ...

All I want for Christmas is . . . No, Mariah Carey. Not you. No, Gayla Peevey. Not a hippopotamus. No, Spike Jones and then the Chipmunks. Not my two front teeth. I want people to watch boxing again!

When you think of dangerous wildlife, bears probably pop into your head first. Grizzlies, polar bears, black bears - sure, ...

Tis the season to be jolly. ‘Tis also the season when we hear the question, “What do you want for Christmas?” For some, that ...

I’m struggling to get into a Christmassy mood. I’m not religious, so Advent doesn’t move me, but I love Christmas in its ...

Hannah Shirley—the world’s oldest living pygmy hippopotamus in managed care—has celebrated her 52 nd birthday in style this with week with a very appropriately themed party. Born on November 22, 1973, ...

New research shows that hippos lived in central Europe tens of thousands of years longer than previously thought. Ancient DNA and radiocarbon dating confirm they survived in Germany’s Upper Rhine ...

Hippos lived at the Upper Rhine in the same time frame as mammoths. In the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen a hippo reconstruction meets a mammoth skeleton. Hippos, today restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, ...

Between 780,000 and 12,000 years ago, Europe’s climate swung between freezing stretches and warmer periods that allowed hippopotamuses to migrate out of Africa into Europe, where they thrived as far ...

Three others survived the incident, which took place on Sept. 5 Escher Walcott is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, covering stories in Entertainment, Style, Human Interest.She joins having written for ...

Eleven people, including children and a baby, were missing after a hippopotamus capsized their boat in southwestern Ivory Coast, a government official said Saturday. The West African nation's minister ...