The Democratic Republic of Congo, home to the expansive Central African rainforests, holds a unique travel experience: visiting indigenous Pygmy villages. These communities have lived in harmony ...

Ota Benga, a 23-year-old man from the Belgian Congo, was kidnapped by slave traders, sold to an American, and transported to ...

Learn Twa (Pygmy) naming traditions, their fight for identity, and figures who amplify their voices. Discover self-naming and ...

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. The pygmy hippopotamus was born on Dec. 9 and given an official birth announcement on Dec. 24. The parents are Iris and Corwin.

On Dec. 9, just two weeks before Christmas, a baby pygmy hippo was born at the zoo in Richmond, Virginia. The baby girl is the third hippo calf born to Metro Richmond Zoo resident pygmy hippos ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia announced the newest addition to their animal family, a baby pygmy hippo, just in time for the holidays. The newborn pygmy hippo was born on Dec. 9 after a 7 ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo has launched the Poppy Cam, a new livestream of its baby pygmy hippo Poppy and her mother, Iris. Poppy was born on Dec. 9, 2024, at the zoo. The Poppy Cam lets hippo lovers ...

Metro Richmond Zoo launched "Poppy Cam" on Jan. 13 — allowing fans from around the world to watch the baby pygmy hippo splash around in her pool Luke Chinman is an editorial intern at PEOPLE.

Pygmy seahorses, about the size of a fingernail, are some of the smallest vertebrates in the world. First discovered in 1969, little was known about the creatures. But in the early 2000s ...