Standing in the pool gives this handler an unexpectedly close moment when the hyena comes right into his arms. The animal ...

Video by Cedric English captures a heart-pounding nighttime encounter as safari tourists find themselves just metres away ...

What thoughts passed through the mind of a badly injured hyena that sought refuge in the bedroom of a private game reserve ...

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 ...

Local people, unfamiliar with the presence of such a predator, tracked and killed the hyena in response to the livestock loss. A rare spotted hyena was discovered in Egypt for the first time in nearly ...

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 ...

[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 ...