The story behind the award-winning photo of an elusive brown hyena bringing new life to the Namib Desert.

The striking image earned South African photographer Wim van den Heever the Natural History Museum in London's top honor ...

Wim van den Heever says it took him ten years to finally photograph the rare and elusive brown hyena in Namibia's abandoned mining town of Kolmanskop.

Not as epic as the series on cats (apparently there are a lot of cat species), but now mythbri‘s finished a series of posts on the four species of hyenas. These ...

South African wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever was announced as the Natural History Museum London's Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025.

‘Ghost Town Visitor’ is the winner of #WPY61’s Urban Wildlife category and won Wim the title of Wildlife Photographer of the ...

Two rare hyenas have been released back to the wild after slightly more than one year of rehabilitation. The striped hyenas are members of a species listed as near-threatened by the International ...

The winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year for 2025 has been announced. Here are some of our favourites from this year’s winning shots.View on euronews ...

The spotted hyena is Africa's most successful predator—and one of its most misunderstood animals. But decades of cutting edge research is yielding greater understanding, respect, and protection. A ...

(CNN) — An image of a rare hyena standing in front of an abandoned building in a former diamond mining town in Namibia has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 award. Shot by South African ...

At night, the long-abandoned diamond mining town of Kolmanskop is almost empty. The tourists who visit this early 20th-Century settlement near Namibia's Atlantic Coast for its sand-filled buildings ...