hippopotamus
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The remains of the 120,000-year-old hippopotamus at the site indicates that a record dating back to before the last Ice Age is present at the site.
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
In Des Moines, a dressing tent, a hippopotamus and matching wagon, and the Lovely Lucinda.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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
He also pointed out the impracticability of escape, since the river was infested with hippopotami, and the forests with fierce animals.
From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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
Animal sanctuary facilities in India and Mexico have agreed to take in 70 invasive African hippopotamuses that descend from those once owned by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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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