Two lions became infamous for terrorizing and eating humans in 1898 during the construction of a railway bridge. Now, a ...
Thanks to some clever scientific detective work, we're getting a glimpse into what two deadly lions were eating -- including their human victims.
Scientists extract DNA from hair embedded in the Tsavo lions' jaws that reveals the species of prey they ate while they were ...
The Lion King has one of the more popular soundtracks of any Disney film, and "Hakuna Matata" is one song that ha ...
The researchers discovered a surprising range of prey, including giraffe, human, oryx, waterbuck, wildebeest, and zebra. The ...
The Tsavo “man-eaters” became infamous after killing at least 28 people in 1898 when they terrorized people in Kenya.
Ancient DNA confirms that the nineteenth-century carnivores hunted humans and a variety of wild game, including a surprising ...
Research on Tsavo lion museum specimens from the 1890s, using DNA isolated from hairs in their teeth, reveals a diverse diet ...
Genetic analysis of cavity crud from two famed man-eating lions suggests the method could re-create diets of predators that lived thousands of years ago.
From this technique analyzing the hair’s DNA, the team identified giraffe, human, oryx, waterbuck, wildebeest and zebra as ...