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We may not regard hyenas as the most adorable animals, but they are both fascinating and impressive. Despite having the appearance of a rather thin and scruffy dog, they belong to the Feliformia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South African photographer Wim van den Heever says it took him ten years to finally photograph the rare and elusive brown hyena in ...

Photographer Wim van den Heever scans the image that his camera trap, triggerable by motion, has captured. It lays bare the tattered skeleton of an abandoned building in Kolmanskop, Namibia, a ...

Biomechanical research across two very different lineages of predators, spotted hyenas and crocodilians, is revealing how ...

Most of us prefer a bit of variety in what we eat. Not true for these five "specialist" species, who seem perfectly content relying on just a single type of food. Humans are, by nature, omnivores. Our ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - For the third time in three years, the keepers of the hyena exhibit at the Hattiesburg Zoo are handing out cigars. The zoo announced Wednesday that a hyena cub was born ...

The striking image earned South African photographer Wim van den Heever the Natural History Museum in London's top honor South African photographer Wim van den Heever was named the Natural History ...