From the sex lives of pygmy seahorses to parasites living in fish nostrils: these photos tell extraordinary ocean stories
British marine biologist and photographer Richard Smith focuses his work on the ocean’s tiniest and weirdest creatures.
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Little pygmy hippo Moo Deng turns 6 months old and gets her own ID card
The world’s most famous pygmy hippo, Moo Deng, turned six months old on Jan 10. The resident of Thailand’s Khao Kheow Open Zoo became an internet sensation at two months old, capturing the hearts of ...
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Pioneering Project To Study Human Virome Puzzle
The scientists, led by Ron Collman, MD, a professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care at Penn, and Frederic Bushman, PhD, the William Maul Measey Professor in Microbiology at Penn, will focus ...
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They’re Adorable. And Endangered. Meet the World’s Smallest Monkey: the Pygmy Marmoset
The cute creatures are chatty, family oriented—and facing a shrinking habitat in the remote forests of Ecuador A baby pygmy marmoset, under the care of an older member of its cooperative family ...
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Endangered pygmy finally meets public in Virginia zoo
The public is finally able to see the new endangered pygmy hippo in person at a Virginia zoo. According to officials at Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, mother Iris and her female calf returned to ...
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Devaluing death of an unsung Singh
The malicious mudslinging against Manmohan Singh, who passed away last week at 92, by political pygmies and self-serving sycophants exposed all that is wrong with Indian public life. The soft ...
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New baby pygmy hippo now on view at Metro Richmond Zoo
The new baby pygmy hippopotamus that was born at the Metro Richmond Zoo in December is now on view at the zoo, according to officials. The newborn, who has yet to be named, can be seen at Hippo ...
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Zoo gets its own Moo Deng and launches poll to name baby pygmy hippo
Earlier this month, the Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, Virginia, welcomed a baby female pygmy hippo calf whose name will be decided by the public. The newborn, currently weighing in at 15 pounds ...
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Zoo gets its own Moo Deng and launches poll to name baby pygmy hippo
Step aside Moo Deng, there’s a new pygmy hippopotamus in town. Earlier this month, the Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, Virginia, welcomed a baby female pygmy hippo calf whose name will be decided ...
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Poppy or Hammie Mae? Richmond Zoo's naming poll for baby pygmy hippo continues
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — Whether they voted to name her Hammie Mae or Poppy, most visitors CBS 6 spoke with at the Metro Richmond Zoo agreed the new baby pygmy hippo born just a few weeks ago ...
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A Virginia Zoo Now Has Its Own Moo Deng—See the ‘Adorable’ Baby Pygmy Hippo Born in December
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 ...
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Welcome to the Richmond Zoo’s newest pygmy hippo — and there’s a second round of voting to choose this baby hippo’s name!
This has been the year of baby pygmy hippos thanks to social media. Now, we thought the babies were done arriving for the year, but the Metro Richmond Zoo had to throw in a last minute new birth to ...