The lion has earned a reputation for being an apex predator and the king of the jungle. However, in a recent YouTube video, what seemed like the perfect ambush turned into a standoff between predator ...

[Related: Man-eating lions might like us because we’re squishy.] During the early 1990s, Field Museum collections manager Thomas Gnoske took the lions’ skulls out of storage in search of more evidence ...

How Do Lions Hunt Wildebeest? Wildebeests and zebras are common prey for lions. Wildebeests can sprint up to 50 miles per hour, while zebras typically run at speeds around 40 miles per hour. A lion’s ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway. A ...

Lions may not have the cheetah's speed or the leopard's forest cover but they have other tricks. Lions may not have the cheetah's speed or the leopard's forest cover. But they have other tricks for ...

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A pair of male lions that roamed Kenya more than a century ago gained notoriety as the “man-eaters of Tsavo.” To be sure, the big cats hunted and ate people building a local railway. But a novel DNA ...

NAKURU/AMBOSELI, Kenya (Reuters Life!) - A zebra leaps to freedom after a grueling six-hour truck journey to Kenya's Amboseli National Park. But if all goes to plan, it will soon fall prey to lions or ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Over a century ago, two giant male lions called the Tsavo “man ...