A rare and heartwarming moment showing close interaction with a hyena in a calm and affectionate setting ...

Nicholas was still young when sibling rivalry became a real threat to his survival. In spotted hyena society, cubs can ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have reported a sighting of a spotted hyena in southeastern ...

[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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A hyena has been filmed walking on two legs after being paralyzed by a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Around 257,000 years ago, at least one of our ancient relatives became hyena lunch. Researchers studying fossilized hyena dung found in South Africa confirmed the presence of 48 strands of hair in one ...