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Hippos lived in Europe alongside mammoths and woolly rhinos during the last Ice Age, according to new research. Detailed analysis of bone finds shows that the heat-loving semi-aquatic mammals ...

Hippos lived at the Upper Rhine in the same time frame as mammoths. In the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen a hippo reconstruction meets a mammoth skeleton. Hippos, today restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, ...

New research shows that hippos lived in central Europe tens of thousands of years longer than previously thought. Ancient DNA and radiocarbon dating confirm they survived in Germany’s Upper Rhine ...

Hippos roamed central Europe much later than previously thought, as 40,000 years ago, a new study of Ice Age fossils reveals. Scientists previously thought common hippos – Hippopotamus amphibius – ...

Between 780,000 and 12,000 years ago, Europe’s climate swung between freezing stretches and warmer periods that allowed hippopotamuses to migrate out of Africa into Europe, where they thrived as far ...

Hippos lived in Europe alongside mammoths and woolly rhinos during the last Ice Age, according to new research. Get any of our free email newsletters — news headlines, sports, arts & entertainment, ...