The skull of a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), photographed at the AMNH’s “Extreme Mammals” exhibit. \\[Author’s note: This post gets a little bit graphic, so those who are made squeamish ...

Studies Of Hyena Skull Development Put Teeth Into New Female Dominance Theory Date: April 8, 2009 Source: Michigan State University Summary: Getting between a female hyena and her cubs at chow ...

They collected around 880 pounds (400 kilograms) of bones, including two complete cave hyena skulls. The paleontologists suspect the hyenas lived in the cave because the bones had gnaw marks ...

Add another to the list: a 30,000-year-old cave hyena skull. Early Tuesday morning, a man broke out the front window of the Northwest 23rd Avenue location of taxidermy and curiosity shop Paxton Gate.

Almost a week after a burglary at the Northwest 23rd Avenue location of Paxton Gate, a store that sells taxidermy, jewelry and other curios, a 30,000-year-old cave hyena skull that retailed for ...

Two fossil skulls of a 12- to 15-million-year-old hyena that once lived in the Gansu province of China may shed light on that mystery.

An illustration of the skull of Chasmaporthetes lunensis from Spain and a full restoration of the hyena's dog-like head. Art by Mauricio Antón and modified by Antón et al., 2007.

In the Umm Jirsan lava tube, the longest such structure in Saudi Arabia, scientists discovered piles bones belonging to animals that hyenas devoured there for thousands of years.

Despite once being interpreted as mighty cannibals, the Homo erectus of Dragon Bone Hill may have been victims of a different kind of predator.