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
Water Lily, a 45-year-old female hippopotamus who has lived at the Woodland Park Zoo since 1979, will be euthanized next week.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
As well picture a block of granite wafting like a feather, or a hippopotamus slithering like a cat.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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
The plural of hippopotamus is hippopotami, because it's a Latin word ending in -us.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
"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
They were hippopotami, that literally swarmed in the turgid water.
From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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 authors describe parasitoid wasps that lay their eggs inside the cocoons of other parasitoid wasps, for example, and leeches that spend their entire lives inside the anuses of hippopotamuses.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2022
A mural depicts the entry to his infamous rural getaway, Hacienda Napoles, which featured, among other attractions, a zoo from which imported hippopotamuses have since escaped into the nearby countryside, causing environmental havoc.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
The hippopotamuses continued to doze with their noses above the surface.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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