The young female made her public debut this week, and the Metro Richmond Zoo is asking fans to vote on her name—a choice between Poppy and Hammie Mae ...

Mia Donahue Sjöman and husband Pierre Sjöman turned to surrogacy and had no idea the surprise fate would have in store.

The Metro Richmond Zoo has had pygmy hippos since 2018, but it was Thailand’s Moo Deng that made the miniature, moist mammals ...

People began arriving around 11 a.m. to stake their spot on the beach on a 32-degree morning. The water was calm, even ...

Vandenberg Space Force Base residents Miata and Steven Tracy celebrated the start of the New Year with the birth of their ...

Maryland welcomed the first babies of Generation Beta, including a boy born in Towson one minute after midnight.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation hosts oyster gardening programs, at which volunteers become a “foster parent” for a few hundred ...

The simply named “Moo Deng Thai Restaurant” is in the 800 block of Fredericksburg Road in Beacon Hill. The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format ...

Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae ...

Celebrity pygmy hippo Moo Deng has company. A new baby born at the Metro Richmond Zoo will get her name from a public poll.

According to the zoo, the pygmy hippo is an endangered species native to the swamps and rivers of West Africa. Less than 2,500 mature individuals remain in the wild. Unlike common hippos, pygmy hippos ...