Upon hearing about the find, English geologist and Anglican minister William Buckland went to investigate, and surmised that the cave, which he dubbed the Hyena Den, had at some point in the ancient ...

The replacement of endemic fauna, such as the dwarf elephant and cave hyena, hints at ecological shifts coinciding with human arrival. Yet the exact timeline of human settlement on the island ...

"The discovery of spotted hyena fossils marks the southernmost record ... analysis of carbon and oxygen in fossils from a nearby cave. Hyenas are now only found in Africa's savannahs, he said.