Natural selection changed just 13 genes to separate your Felix and Fluffy from their African wildcat ancestor.

Before going extinct roughly two million years ago, canids known as borophagines took down and consumed much larger prey ...

Bonzai and two of his siblings arrived from a zoo in Italy a couple of weeks ago. October 11, 2011. - Ron Pietroniro / Metroland DURHAM — Orono’s Jungle Cat World Wildlife Park recently welcomed three ...

Prehistoric humans may have been capable of competing with giant hyenas for carcasses abandoned by saber-toothed cats and jaguars hundreds of thousands of years ago. A study published in the ...

Hyenas live in female-dominated clans organized under a strict social hierarchy. Higher-status individuals subordinate lower-status ones, and rank is passed down from mother to daughter.

When we think of hyenas, we usually picture them in the savannah or in a dry environment surrounded by lions or elephants, but this has not always been the case. Thanks to new research, we now ...