Siberian locals have discovered an incredible prehistoric time capsule in what paleontologists believe is the largest ancient hyena lair ever found in Asia. The cave contained a whole menagerie of ...

The cave hyena, named Crocuta crocuta spelaea, lived for about 1 million years in Eurasia, before dying out some 10,000 to 30,000 years ago. Not only were they about 25 percent larger than modern ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This particular hyena, Sauqué and coauthors ...

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A team of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) analyzed teeth fossils from ancient predators to see what they preyed on during the Pleistocene epoch. The team found that ...

A few hundred thousand years ago during Earth's most recent Ice Age, a beefy subspecies of spotted hyena that was more than double the weight of its modern relative roamed Eurasia's snow-glazed ...

Over the years, Portland has seen its share of precious items stolen. The city’s only bookmobile. Four show terriers. John Wayne’s gun. Add another to the list: a 30,000-year-old cave hyena skull.

Recent research unearthed a trove of remains at a site that first yielded a Neanderthal skull in 1939. Italian Ministry of Culture Archaeologists surveying the Guattari Cave, near Rome, have ...

Breaking down a hyena kill. Given competition with other carnivores, prehistoric hyenas (like their living counterparts) would probably have disarticulated and transported parts of horses they killed.

About 65,000 years ago, a large carnivore — perhaps a cave hyena — chomped down on the face of a (likely dead) Neanderthal. Then, that carnivore partially digested two of the hominin's teeth before ...