The drug lord Pablo Escobar built a private zoo filled with hippos, but things took a dangerous turn when he was shot dead. Read more about it here.

Here at BroBible, we’ve been tracking the cocaine hippos saga for a long time. I first wrote about them back in 2009 for AOL ...

Anthrax has been connected to the death of dozens of hippopotamuses at Virunga National Park in Africa's Democratic Republic ...

About 50 hippos have died of anthrax poisoning in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park, the oldest ...

“As more gather around his body, it's hard not to interpret this behavior as mourning. Or at least as a way of coming to terms with their loss. This type of procession has been observed with elephants ...

At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s ...

Roughly 50 hippopotamuses at Africa’s premier nature reserve died from anthrax poisoning, according to park officials.

At least 50 hippos and other large animals at Virunga National Park in the DRC are thought to be killed by the bacterial ...

Graphic warningAt least 50 hippos have been killed by anthrax poisoning in Congo's Virunga National Park and have been spotted floating along a major river that feeds one of Africa's great ...

Five lions were sprawled out and sunning on rocks alongside Kenya’s Voi River. Hippos wallowed nearby. Elephants drank and ...

A recreational submarine taking 45 tourists on an underwater cruise of coral reefs in the Red Sea sank off the Egyptian resort town of Hurghada on Thursday, leaving six Russians dead, the ...

A shelter dog is a huge fan of food — and she needs a home with plenty of snacks. “Meet House Hippo — The Myth, The Legend, The Lunch Bandit,” a North Carolina animal shelter wrote March ...