The Tsavo man-eaters terrorized railroad workers in British East Africa in the 19th century, but their tastes went well ...

Hairs trapped in cavities of the infamous lions that hunted humans in Kenya’s Tsavo region in 1898 revealed the surprising ...

"Analysis of hair DNA identified giraffe, human, oryx, waterbuck, wildebeest and zebra as prey, and also identified hairs that originated from lions," the researchers reported. The lions were ...

adding to other research confirming the lions’ reputation as “man-eaters”. Now that the team has developed this method of reconstructing predators’ past diets, they wonder if the hair ...

Two lions became infamous for terrorizing and eating humans in 1898 during the construction of a railway bridge. Now, a ...

A new study reconstructed the diet of the infamous Tsavo lions using ancient DNA from hairs found in their teeth. The ...

Ancient DNA confirms that the nineteenth-century carnivores hunted humans and a variety of wild game, including a surprising ...

Given half a chance, lions aren't above chewing on the occasional Homo sapien that might stray unguarded into their territory ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, ...

I n 1898, a pair of lions repeatedly raided the tents of an encampment in Kenya, killing at least 28 people. The infamous ...

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