From the moment Bryan Hawn was a child, animals fascinated him. He and his brother Mark would constantly challenge each other ...

South African photographer Wim van den Heever has received this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year award for his image ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A video of a hyena cub and a corgi playing has left the internet in ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...