Hippos were a symbol of chaos in ancient Egypt.
Here's one of the reasons why:

Hippos are photographed biting a crocodile to death


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( Hot leopard on crocodile action. Guess who comes out on top? )

My first posting here, and I've checked the tags but didn't see this monster listed.

Just came across this article today. I've known about the cane toad problem in Australia for a while, but this is pretty serious news because I can't think of any way you could solve the problem--they've been trying to control the population for years without ( Read more... )

While cruising through the more recent lists of critically endangered critters I came across the Gharial, which basically looks like a crocodile that someone decided to mess with in photoshop and stretch out every which way.

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The animal kingdom has long been a mysterious one for humans and every day we learn something new about it. This is a list of ten little known facts about animals.
10. Crocodiles Eat Stones


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