It took a long time for the animals to recover from the fireworks madness of New Year's Eve. Now the "Franziskus" adventure ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo has launched the Poppy Cam, a new livestream of its baby pygmy hippo Poppy and her mother, Iris.

The world’s smallest monkey is called the pygmy marmoset, and it is, predictably, very tiny, just a little scoop of fur. It likes to eat the sticky resin found in tree bark, known as gum ...

The Bee Hummingbird is native to Cuba and Isla de la Juventud. It weighs only 1.5 grams and is slightly smaller than the Bee Hummingbird.

Earlier this month, the Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, Virginia, welcomed a baby female pygmy hippo calf whose ... obsessors modeled cakes after the small hippo to sell to other hippo enthusiasts.

On December 9, the Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia welcomed a newborn female pygmy hippo (Choeropsis liberiensis). After some time being raised behind the scenes, the youngster made her public debu ...

In a matter of minutes, they were hanging on for dear life as an EF3 tornado barreled through. The small boat flipped over sending everyone into the water. Thankfully, everyone was uninjured.

The Metro Richmond Zoo has had pygmy hippos since 2018, but it was Thailand’s Moo Deng that made the miniature, moist mammals household names. As I walk into the baby’s pen, she follows her ...

There’s not much crossover between the best hybrid cars and the best small cars, though. With a few exceptions, manufacturers have concentrated their best hybrid technology on larger cars with ...

I spotted only one small herd of actual cows: thin specimens picking through the dry grass by the highway. What I saw far more often were goats. They are displacing cows in some areas because they ...

As the saying goes, great things come in small packages. And that goes double for your vacation destination. For travelers seeking solitude, island escapes have long been at the top of their ...

HOUSTON — The terrorist who killed 15 people when he plowed his truck down crowded Bourbon Street in New Orleans was an American-born military veteran who was living in a run-down trailer park ...