CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — Scores of folks gathered at the Metro Richmond Zoo to celebrate Poppy the pygmy hippo's birthday.

Being a Southerner by birth, lineage and residency, I’ve eaten a lot of black-eyed peas over the past few days.

Three start-ups are aiming to create gene-edited babies. Columnist Michael Le Page has no doubt that editing our offspring ...

BBC footage shows male hippos fighting for dominance, sometimes for hours, in a brutal struggle for mating rights ...