The Field Museum, #Z93658 They are perhaps the world’s most notorious wild lions. Their ancestors were vilified more than 100 years ago as the man-eaters of Tsavo, a vast swath of Kenya savanna ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- When the Lions of Tsavo first arrived at the Field Museum of Natural History 100 years ago, they had been made into rugs. But taxidermists transformed them into the lifelike ...

In the late 19th century, two lions unleashed terror on the workers tasked with the construction of the Kenya-Uganda railway Known as the "Man-eaters of Tsavo," this ...

And if nothing else could convince the British lawmakers that the East African venture was doomed, the mauling of Indian 'coolies' in Tsavo surely did. So daring were the Tsavo lions that they ...

Passengers aboard the first Kampala-bound train as railway resumed services to Uganda following the revival of the East African Community ... of the Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo are simply dumbfounding.

The lions’ teeth had been damaged during their lifetimes. Study coauthor Thomas Gnoske found thousands of hairs embedded in the exposed cavities of the broken teeth. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

In the 1990s, a team from the Kenya Wildlife Service and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago found a cave that the “man-eater” lions had used in Tsavo, Kenya. The team included ...

In Kenya and across Africa, poison is ... damage of retaliation against lions. Traditional concoctions are still used, especially among elephant poachers in Tsavo East, where at least half the ...