Even if you're a well-trained scientist, sometimes you see something that leaves you breathless. For a team of ecology researchers, the February 2024 sighting of a spotted hyena in southeastern Egypt ...

Urban scavengers like spotted hyenas are preventing more than 1,000 metric tons of carbon emissions annually in Ethiopia's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The extraordinary discovery of the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) in Egypt after 5,000 years of being assumed extinct in the ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Like other big cats, the leopard is endangered across West Africa. Yet in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park, the famously spotted feline appears to be doing rather well—surprisingly, given the reserve ...

In January, Hattiesburg Zoo officials held a gender reveal for its spotted hyena cub Kito. Less than a year later the zoo announced the birth of two more hyena cubs to mother Pili. “Pili was a ...

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 ...