The group is separated from the herd and is harassed by a large clan of hyenas. The hyenas are trying to get to the buffalo calves, but the adult buffalo aren’t going to allow it. The larger ...

The group is separated from the herd and is harassed by a large clan of hyenas. The hyenas are trying to get to the buffalo calves, but the adult buffalo aren’t going to allow it. The larger buffalo ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

For a team of ecology researchers, the February 2024 sighting of a spotted hyena in southeastern Egypt prompted them to comb through the history books. Click your choice to see results and speak your ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

A leopard-sized mammal sat atop its food chain 30 million years ago, hunting early hippos, primates and elephants in what is now Egypt 1. During an expedition to a fossil-rich basin in the desert ...

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

Hyenas, with their menacing laughter echoing through the African savanna, have long been regarded as symbols of fear and ferocity. Renowned for their formidable hunting skills, scavenging prowess, and ...

But maybe it was not science fiction but poetry, the art of intimations and intuitions, that enabled some writers to describe what had not yet happened. Then again, what we think of as intuition ...

Despite their name, the carnivores were not hyenas. Hyaenodonts were an ancient group of four-legged flesh-eaters that spread from ancient Europe through Africa, Asia, and North America between 56 ...