hippopotamus
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Small digs have since uncovered "extremely rare" evidence of early humans and animals - including the bones of a hippopotamus which roamed Wales 120,000 years ago.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
A $31.4 million bar cart shaped like a hippopotamus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Researchers examined numerous hippopotamus fossils using both genetic and radiocarbon dating methods.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2025
Yang has been known to portray the iceberg that sank the Titanic or the adorable Thai pygmy hippopotamus Moo Deng.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2024
One hospital writes back about a hippopotamus law that forbids them from telling me anything.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
Their list mainly included fish, but also mammals like beavers, river dolphins and hippopotami, as well as coldblooded creatures like crocodiles, giant salamanders and alligator snapping turtles.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2020
Sometimes he dances, rather in the manner of the tutu-clad hippopotami in Walt Disney’s “Fantasia.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2016
Photograph: John Bracegirdle/Alamy When the foundations of Trafalgar Square were dug in the 1830s, builders exposed river gravels crammed with the bones of hippopotami, straight-tusked elephants, giant deer, giant aurochs and lions.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2013
"But such pedantry is frowned upon in common usage, so we are stuck with the equally accepted hippopotamuses and hippopotami."
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
It is some three miles long by two wide, and is the abode of great numbers of hippopotami, while the buffalo, zebra, boar and antelope come here by night to quench their thirst.
From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Joel Tyler Headley
The code specifies hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, moose, giraffes, baboons and reptiles over 8 feet long, among others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
They confront many obstacles and dangers on their trek, including rivers that hide dangerous hippopotamuses and crocodiles, not to mention numerous predators they face on land.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Mexican zoo authorities have agreed to help facilitate the transfer of the hippopotamuses, which have yet to be captured.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
The fossils date from early in the Eocene epoch, when Earth was home to ancient relatives of many modern mammals, including tapirs, hippopotamuses and humans.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 25, 2023
And in the pond you realize those are hippopotamuses floating in the water.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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