The lions’ teeth had been damaged during their lifetimes. Study coauthor Thomas Gnoske found thousands of hairs embedded in the exposed cavities of the broken teeth. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

New DNA sequencing using tiny hairs that were carefully extracted from the lions’ broken teeth has revealed that the predators ate humans, wildebeests, giraffes, and more. The findings are ...

You can't feed a lion grass!! He's got the wrong sort of teeth! Animals which eat plants have teeth like this. They're shaped to squash and grind. Meat eating animals have teeth like this ...

There are exceptions, of course. One of the most notorious occurred in Kenya's Tsavo region in 1898, when two male lions spent months terrorizing workers building a railroad bridge across the Tsavo ...

A team of scientists has now identified exactly what kinds of prey the so-called "Tsavo Man-Eaters" fed upon, based on DNA analysis of hairs collected from the lions' teeth, according to a recent ...

Thomas Gnoske, a collections manager at the museum, first spotted thousands of hairs trapped within the lions’ teeth when he examined their skulls in the 1990s. Now, Gnoske and his colleagues in ...

Miahong however pleaded for mercy saying she was ill and had bought the tusks and lion teeth to heal her from cancer. They pleaded with the court for a lenient sentencing saying that they are from ...

A new study analyzed hairs embedded in the damaged teeth of two “man-eater” lions that killed at least 28 people in 1898 in the Tsavo region of Kenya. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — In 1898, two male ...