The hyena, a cunning and resilient predator, thrives in Africa’s grasslands and woodlands, using its powerful jaws, sharp ...

In the summer of 1821, stone-quarry workers discovered a cave in Kirkdale, Yorkshire, that was littered with the remains of dozens of animal species, including hippos, rhinos, tigers, elephants, and, ...

Animal trackers using traditional skills helped to find and identify fossil tracks on the coast of South Africa.

A few kilometres from the Big Cat Live camp was a hyena den whose occupants we were able to follow on the webcams and with thermal imaging cameras. Such dens are hard to spot unless the hyenas are ...

The hyenas in the above video appear to be spotted hyenas, which are the most common species of hyena in Africa. They live together in large groups of up to 100 individuals.

Throughout the ages spotted hyenas have had a PR issue From the first time I saw spotted hyenas around a Namibian waterhole, I have been fascinated by them, but I didn’t realise that I was going ...

When wildlife isn’t monitored rigorously, populations can disappear within just a few years, as tigers did in India’s Sariska ...

For nearly 15 years almost no information was available on the population status of Uganda's large carnivores, including those in its largest national park, Murchison Falls. These species ...

Swapping techniques The Late Pleistocene is not that far distant from the present (a mere 125,000 years ago), and many of the species that made tracks on the Cape South Coast then are still with ...