Breaking down a hyena kill. Given competition with other carnivores, prehistoric hyenas (like their living counterparts) would probably have disarticulated and transported parts of horses they killed.

Siberian locals have discovered an incredible prehistoric time capsule in what paleontologists believe is the largest ancient hyena lair ever found in Asia. The cave contained a whole menagerie of ...

Recent research unearthed a trove of remains at a site that first yielded a Neanderthal skull in 1939. Italian Ministry of Culture Archaeologists surveying the Guattari Cave, near Rome, have ...

The cave hyena, named Crocuta crocuta spelaea, lived for about 1 million years in Eurasia, before dying out some 10,000 to 30,000 years ago. Not only were they about 25 percent larger than modern ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This particular hyena, Sauqué and coauthors ...

About 65,000 years ago, a large carnivore — perhaps a cave hyena — chomped down on the face of a (likely dead) Neanderthal. Then, that carnivore partially digested two of the hominin's teeth before ...

The researchers collaborated with researchers at the University of Potsdam and sequenced complete genomes from both modern spotted hyenas in Africa and subfossils of the extinct cave hyena from Europe ...

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Fossilized poo never stops surprising. By analysing droppings from extinct hyenas, palaeontologists have reconstructed DNA from an ice-age woolly rhino 1. About the size of today’s white rhinos, the ...

The cave has been untouched for around 42,000 years. It also contained the bones and teeth of hyena pups, suggesting they raised their young there. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

University of Copenhagen - The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Prehistoric humans left Africa for the first time about 2 million years ago. The research community has been aware of this for ...