Pablo Escobar's four imported hippos have spawned Colombia's largest invasive population, disrupting local ecosystems. These ...

Colombia has around 200 so-called "cocaine hippos" living in the wild, all of which descended from a colony brought to South ...

Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippos into Colombia decades ago, and the country has been paying for it ever since. A rescued ...

Few animals carry a gap between reputation and reality as wide as the hippopotamus. To many casual observers it reads as a ...

Oil prices dropped Monday after President Trump called off an apparent strike on Iran, and then said the U.S. was starting diplomatic talks. Iran denied the claim. David Uberti, a reporter for The ...

In a legal first, hippopotamuses located in Colombia that were once owned by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar are now considered "interested persons" Hippopotamuses that represent the legacy of Pablo ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Thanks to years of campaigning by wildlife conservation groups, it’s widely known that Africa’s ...

They’re horny, horny hippos. The Colombian government wants to send Pablo Escobar’s so-called “cocaine hippos” to Mexico and India because the sexed-up mammals won’t stop procreating. The hippos — ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Colombian government has announced a raft of measures to control ...

Viral video footage captures the heart-pounding moment a massive hippo charged after a tour boat in Botswana, racing through ...

Hippopotamuses are rather vocal animals. Their "wheeze honk" calls can be heard over long distances, leading researchers to suspect the calls play an important role in maintaining social groups. Now, ...