Is Hippopotamus antiquus (Mammalia, Hippopotamidae) affected by body size variations? The contribution of the Mosbach (Germany, Middle Pleistocene) specimen

Funding Information: Open access funding provided by FCT|FCCN (b-on). RM is granted by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) [2021.08458.BD] and SYNTHESYS + [DE-TAF-TA4 - 063 2022]. This research was also supported FCT, I.P through the Research Unit UIDB/04035/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/04035/2020). This work is part of the project P2022RZ4PL funded by the European Union—Next Generation EU, call PRIN 2022 PNRR (granted to LP). MR thanks the Stimulus of Scientific Employment, Individual Support–2018 Call grant by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal, CEECIND/02199/2018) and GeoBioTec. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2025.