Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is ...

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz recorded three instances of a coyote dragging a baby seal away from the beach then eating it.

This is the moment a pride of lions chased a buffalo through an alley in India. CCTV footage shows the farm animal walking ...

Leave it to a gigantic hippo to scare off three lions as they swim for their lives to escape the territorial beast.

The thriving bird colonies likely grew over several decades because local shepherds had temporarily eliminated pumas ...

This is due to their lifestyle in the wild, where meals are not guaranteed daily. When they do catch prey, lions tend to eat as much as they can. This behavior is an evolutionary adaptation to their ...

Incidents of lions killing domestic animals in Gujarat's Gir forest have steadily increased, reaching a peak of 4,385 in 2023-24, according to recent government data. This is despite an increase in ...

The painful tooth might explain in part the lions' hunger for humans. "If they can't eat normal prey with this severely broken canine, might that be a reason to turn to people?" Peterhans said.

the biggest effect was because there was more prey for lions to eat, said Creel. Overall, lion populations in those same patrolled areas grew fast enough that lion numbers could double in a decade, ...

What do lions eat? Their diet includes antelopes, buffaloes and zebras. But they also sometimes eat smaller prey like mice, birds and tortoises. Originally, lions inhabited all of Africa and large ...

Studies determine how prey density affects African wild dogs and lions. Two recently published studies by a Montana State University ecologist reveal new findings about the relationship between ...

"The densities of those animals, which are prey for species like African wild dogs and lions, are a tiny fraction of what they would have been 40 or 50 years ago." The two papers document studies ...