"Moo Deng" is seen with her mother Jona at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, Sept. 18, 2024. The new star of Khao Kheow Open Zoo, a female dwarf hippopotamus named "Moo Deng", which ...

Scientists have unravelled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque landscape on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus before palaeolithic humans ...

A recent study suggests that the first humans to settle on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus were responsible for driving two unique megafaun ...

Chonburi, Thailand — Only a month after Thailand's adorable baby hippo Moo Deng was unveiled on Facebook, her fame became unstoppable both domestically and internationally. Zookeeper Atthapon Nundee ...

and the pygmy hippopotamus (like Moo Deng and her siblings Moo Wan and Moo Tun, and her parents, Jonah and Tony.) The dwarf ...

The Cypriot dwarf elephant was less than 10 percent of the size of its mainland ancestor, the straight-tusked elephant ( ...

The article explores human arrival on Cyprus around 14,000 years ago and examines how early human settlers may have ...

Dwarf hippos and elephants in Cyprus ‘driven to extinction by just 3,000 people’ - Both animals disappeared within a century ...

During the Late Pleistocene, an epoch lasting from around 130,000 to 12,000 years ago, Cyprus was home to only two species of ...

Skeleton of a dwarf hippo (Phanourios minor) and artist’s reconstruction of the animal displayed at the Akamas Geology and Palaeontology Information Centre in Pano Arodes, western Cyprus (photo: CJA B ...