HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- While scrolling social media, you may have encountered "Moo Deng," Thailand's viral pygmy hippo, who became an international sensation with her adorable antics and memes.

Scientific name: Boraras maculatus (Duncker, 1904). Common name: Pygmy or dwarf rasbora. Maximum size: 22mm/0.9”. Distribution and habitat: Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra) and South-east Thailand. Black ...

Sri Lankan scientists have reviewed the Rasbora of Sri Lanka and conclude that there are five species on the island, including two species that they describe as new. Anjana Silva, Kalana Maduwage and ...

The Pygmy Piglets (voiced by John Fiedler) are a community of short-statured piglets which inhabit the Land of Milk and Honey. Piglet doesn't like the idea of being king, but Tigger and Rabbit; who ...

However, it appears that for now, the market has been saved by a pygmy hippo named Moo Deng from Thailand. Images of the then two-month-old hippo, living at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Si Racha, ...

Kirbie Johnson, who co-hosts the beauty podcast Gloss Angeles, dressed as the viral baby pygmy hippopotamus for her annual Halloween party, dubbed KIRBOWEEN, held at the Solawave House in Los Angeles.

BOSTON - Moo Deng is social media's newest darling. The baby pygmy hippo first captured the hearts of gawkers at her zoo in Thailand, and then she devoured the world wide web faster than a head of ...

BANGKOK, Oct 25 — Thai zoos are seeing a surge in newborn pygmy hippopotamuses all of a sudden, but you won’t hear anyone complaining, especially with how endangered the species is in the wild. Somdet ...

Few animals have taken the internet by storm quite like Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo at Thailand’s Khao Kheow Open Zoo, who has won a legion of online followers and inspired thousands of memes ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet - sort of a celestial tweener.

Three Decades Later, First Brown Dwarf Ever Found Offers a Surprise By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf ...

In 1995, Caltech researchers at the Institute's Palomar Observatory first observed what appeared to be a brown dwarf orbiting Gliese 229 – a red dwarf star located about 19 light-years from Earth.