The Nashville Zoo has added two new animals to its population: a brother sister pair of 14-week old aardwolf pups.

While many of their relatives unfortunately went extinct, four types of hyenas have managed to survive and adapt remarkably well to different environments. Here, we have carefully curated a list ...

The hyena is not in the Canidae family, and instead it is in the Hyaenidae family. This family consists of three different species of hyena, as well as aardwolves. Typical hyenas (the spotted ...

While four hyena species—brown, striped, spotted, and aardwolves—roam through various parts of Africa, the spotted has been the most maligned.

Hyenas often seem similar to cats and dogs in various aspects. For instance, just like dogs, hyenas have sharp night vision and use their powerful jaws and teeth to catch prey. Also, hyenas ...

When hyenas leave sour-smelling notes for friends and enemies alike, it’s actually tiny microbes that are printing each letter.

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 types of elaborate scent profiles may offer an explanation as to how hyenas reinforce their elaborate and somewhat unusual social structure.

Although only four hyena species exist today, the prehistoric world was full of them: nearly 70 species are currently known to have once roamed the planet.

Zoologists are hoping that long-term ecological studies of the spotted hyena will assist in dispelling the animal's undeservedly bad reputation.