For those not yet convinced that hippos and whales are first cousins, a UC Berkeley researcher has the definitive proof. A group of four-footed mammals that flourished worldwide for 40 million years ...

It might look docile lolling among the water lilies, but bad-tempered and surprisingly swift on terra firma, the hippopotamus has a deservedly fearsome public image in its African homeland. It also ...

Wallowing in Africa’s rivers by day and grazing on their shores by night, hippopotamuses have spurred a long scientific debate about just how they fit into the mammalian family tree. Some scientists ...

Three new species of anthracotheres (one Anthracokeryx and two Bothriogenys) are described from the Na Duong coal deposits in northeastern Vietnam. These are the first representatives of the genera ...

Gnatho-dental specimens of the anthracotheres (Mammalia; Artiodactyla) from the four Neogene localities of central Myanmar are described. Four species of anthracotheres are recognized in the Neogene ...

The skull of an animal, belonging to the family of extinct creatures known as anthracotheres, has been found in Sohawa, Jhelum District of Pakistan's Punjab province. The fossil weighs 10 kilogrammes ...

Fossil teeth recently found in Kenya may help fill in some of the holes in the history of hippopotamuses. The teeth, which are roughly 28 million years old, belong to a newly identified hippo ancestor ...

To call hippos “charming” may seem a bit of a stretch, but they are most certainly among the classic charismatic megafauna of the African continent. In the wake of the end-Pleistocene ecological ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

Ancient entelodonts are routinely portrayed as brutal carnivores, but they probably kept to the same menu as today's pigs and peccaries. Reading time 3 minutes About 20 to 40 million years ago, ...

Berkeley -- A group of four-footed mammals that flourished worldwide for 40 million years and then died out in the ice ages is the missing link between the whale and its not-so-obvious nearest ...

A group of four-footed mammals that flourished worldwide for 40 million years and then died out in the ice ages is the missing link between the whale and its not-so-obvious nearest relative, the ...