The rarest owl in the world, the Pernambuco pygmy owl, is found exclusively in a small area of Northeastern Brazil in humid ...

Found only in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, the Pernambuco pygmy-owl is another species that has vanished from its natural habitat. This small, insect-eating owl was last seen in 2002 ...

We won the owl 732,000 acres of critical habitat in 1999. But developers fought back in 2001, with the tacit support of the Bush administration, and their lawsuit seeking to remove the pygmy owl’s’ ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— Following multiple petitions and lawsuits, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today again protected the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl as threatened under the Endangered Species Act after ...

The forests and swamps of West Africa – particularly Liberia – are the native stomping ground of pygmy hippos, but there are believed to be only 2,500 remaining in the wild today, according to ...

A baby pgymy hippo born at the Edinburgh Zoo may be the next viral sensation. Street View Image from June 2023 © 2024 Google Months after a baby pygmy hippopotamus ...

Celebrity hippo Moo Deng has some friendly competition. There’s a new pygmy hippo on the block, and she also has a food-themed name. Haggis—named for an offal-based Scottish delicacy—was ...

Edinburgh Zoo/tiktok Move over, Moo Deng! A new adorable baby pygmy hippo has been born. On Monday, Nov. 4, the Edinburgh Zoo, run by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, announced the birth ...

An "incredibly rare" female baby hippopotamus has been born at Edinburgh Zoo. The tiny endangered pygmy hippo calf, named Haggis, arrived on 30 October and zookeepers said her personality was ...