Life inside a spotted hyena clan is not random. Every animal has a place, and the strongest personalities shape how the rest ...

For decades, researchers assumed hyenas shadowed lions to steal scraps from fresh kills. But when GPS collars revealed ...

"Has the Earth's sixth mass extinction already arrived?" This question - the title of a review published in last week's Nature - immediately sparked a flurry of news reports about an impending ...

Spotted hyena clans flip the script on mammalian power: here, dominance is inherited, alliances matter most and females rule every level of society. Many social carnivores follow male-dominant scripts ...

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CHIPPEWA FALLS — Zuri, the last hyena in the Irvine Park Zoo, died Saturday at age 20, according to Chippewa Falls Parks Director John Jimenez. “She lived a long life with us,” Jimenez said Tuesday.

A hyena at Thiruvananthapuram Zoo gave birth to two cubs, prompting special care and monitoring by zoo officials.

In the movie The Lion King, hyenas are the villains. They’re portrayed as slobbering, mangy, stupid scavengers always ready to do someone else’s dirty work. It’s entertaining, but the caricature ...

The giggling sounds of a hyena contain important information about the animal's status, say scientists. In the first study to decipher the hyena's so-called "laugh", they have shown that the pitch of ...

Scientists have established how the largest bone-cracking carnivore to have ever lived went about its business. The giant hyena, Pachycrocuta brevirostris, roamed Africa more than 2.5 million years ...

[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 ...