This ice age fossil tooth -- tucked away for years in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Nature -- belonged to the 'running hyena' Chasmaporthetes, according to a new University at Buffalo ...

An artist's rendering of ancient Arctic hyenas belonging to the genus Chasmaporthetes. A new study reports that two enigmatic fossil teeth found in Yukon Territory in Canada belonged to ...

The evidence suggests ancient hyenas and other predators also took refuge in these tubes, which were prolific across the arid peninsula and likely formed by lava flow millions of years ago.

Related: Siberian cave filled with mammoth, rhino and bear bones is ancient hyena lair Aardwolves, which translates as "earth wolves" in Afrikaans, are the smallest of the four hyena species ...

A few kilometres from the Big Cat Live camp was a hyena den whose occupants we were able to follow on the webcams and with thermal imaging cameras. Such dens are hard to spot unless the hyenas are ...

The daily hyena feeding spectacle is just one example of this city's unique heritage. "This is one of the world's ancient civilisations," local historian Abdulswamad Idris tells me. "Some of the ...