All items sold on this website are polyurethane resin replicas, made in USA. No real or natural bone is available on this site.
Hippopotamus Skull Replicas are museum quality polyurethane resin casts. All Hippopotamus Skull Replicas are made in USA.
The hippopotamus or hippo, from the ancient Greek for river horse, is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub-Saharan Africa. The other is the pygmy hippopotamus. After the elephant and rhinoceros, the hippopotamus is the third-largest type of land mammal and the heaviest extant artiodactyl.
Hippos are recognisable for their barrel-shaped torsos, wide-opening mouths with large canine tusks, nearly hairless bodies, pillar-like legs.
Despite their physical resemblance to pigs and other terrestrial even-toed ungulates, their closest living relatives are whales and porpoises, from which they diverged about 55 million years ago.
