Hyenas might be the most misunderstood animal – Are they dogs? Big cats? Evil, trouble-making sidekicks? (Thanks, Lion King!) Dr. Christine Wilkinson relates to this ambiguous perception as a ...

Over a million years ago, among the chilly grasslands of the ancient Yukon, Canada’s most northwesterly territory, an unexpected beast roamed: a hyena. More lupine in appearance than its modern ...

The extraordinary discovery of the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) in Egypt after 5,000 years of being assumed extinct in the country serves as a high point of evolution and an anomaly in its own ...

Countries under the international treaty to protect migratory animals have proposed increasing protections for 42 species.

A safari guide at Sanbona Wildlife Reserve in South Africa took a chance by leaving a hippo he had found for his clients to potentially view a lion stalking a hyena, an encounter he had been waiting ...

Here’s how complex social dynamics in pack animals like hyenas may shed light on the deep-seated biological impact of rank and community in the animal kingdom. The evolution of pack behavior is a ...

[Author's Note: I don't think that I have ever traveled so much in my entire life. For the past few months I have been chasing down dinosaurs - and the paleontologists who study them - across the ...