Miscellaneousfromenglish.elpais.com3 weeks agoPablo Escobar's hippos: A serious environmental problem, 40 years onColombia faces an expanding invasive hippopotamus population from Pablo Escobar's private zoo, posing human safety, ecological, and management challenges that remain unresolved.
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SciencefromNature3 months agoHippos still roamed Europe during the last ice ageHippo populations in southwestern Germany persisted far longer than previously believed, surviving past 115,000 years ago.