Researchers analyzed DNA from hairs in the teeth of the infamous Tsavo man-eating lions, revealing that they consumed a ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, ...

Hairs trapped in cavities of the infamous lions that hunted humans in Kenya’s Tsavo region in 1898 revealed the surprising ...

Scientists extract DNA from hair embedded in the Tsavo lions' jaws that reveals the species of prey they ate while they were ...

Patterson kept the lions' remains, eventually selling them to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1925. Decades ...

This study not only identifies the specific animals the lions preyed on but also provides clues as to why they targeted humans.

In 1898, a pair of maneless male lions began terrorizing crews building the Kenya-Uganda Railway, killing and eating dozens ...

The Tsavo man-eaters terrorized railroad workers in British East Africa in the 19th century, but their tastes went well ...

A new study reconstructed the diet of the infamous Tsavo lions using ancient DNA from hairs found in their teeth. The ...

Research on Tsavo lion museum specimens from the 1890s, using DNA isolated from hairs in their teeth, reveals a diverse diet ...

Ancient DNA confirms that the nineteenth-century carnivores hunted humans and a variety of wild game, including a surprising ...

From this technique analyzing the hair’s DNA, the team identified giraffe, human, oryx, waterbuck, wildebeest and zebra as ...