Makris set out to digitally reconstruct the skull of this extinct dwarf hippo species using a photogrammetry approach. Gerkakis elaborates on the methodology used, "For the flattened cranium ...

With only as few as 115,000 adult hippos remaining in the wild in Africa today and increasing and unabating threats from habitat loss and degradation, poaching and trade in hippo parts — teeth, skulls ...

Habitat loss and degradation, drought, poaching and the international trade of hippo parts, including their teeth, skulls, ivory, skin and meat, all threaten this keystone species. The United States ...