A lot of hippos ultimately means a very dirty river, but that fact can have some surprisingly major consequences on the ...

Jenna Demmer is a writer and editor that specializes in health. She has covered many topics including infectious diseases, women's health, mental health, sleep, and more. She has written for more than ...

Robert Burakoff, MD, MPH, is a board-certified gastroenterologist who serves as vice chair of Ambulatory Services at Lower Manhattan Hospital and professor of medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical ...

Hyrox champ Joanna Wietrzyk, 24, shocked onlookers — and the internet — after losing control of her bowels mid-race in Beijing last week, sparking disgust, outrage, and some serious health and safety ...

Grant Furniss has worked with zoos for more than three decades, but he said he’s never used the word “cute” to describe anything. That is, until Canada’s only baby pygmy hippo — an endangered species ...

Learn how flooding, dangerous wildlife, and tropical diseases could complicate Ash Dykes’s 400-mile kayak trip through the Congo Basin. Welsh adventurer Ash Dykes is getting ready to kayak more than ...

Excessive gas during bowel movements can happen when hard stools from constipation block gas in your colon, causing it to build up and release all at once when you finally pass stool. Gas paired with ...

It may be the stinkiest debate of the year. A Hyrox athlete has divided the internet after losing control of her bowels mid-race and refusing to stop, raising questions about whether she should have ...

It’s the only example of a dinosaur-era feather found within rock that wasn’t completely flattened through the centuries. By K. R. Callaway An extremely well-preserved bird feather from the age of ...

There’s pushing through discomfort, and then there’s finishing a Hyrox race while actively shi**ing yourself in front of hundreds of people. Joanna Wietrzyk, a 24-year-old Australian athlete and Hyrox ...

Every sport eventually gets a national scandal. For cycling there was doping. For football there was Deflategate. And for Hyrox, a fitness race that asks you to use equipment thousands of strangers ...