The lion has earned a reputation for being an apex predator and the king of the jungle. However, in a recent YouTube video, what seemed like the perfect ambush turned into a standoff between predator ...

[Related: Man-eating lions might like us because we’re squishy.] During the early 1990s, Field Museum collections manager Thomas Gnoske took the lions’ skulls out of storage in search of more evidence ...

Despite a herd of wildebeest nearby, a mother lion made no effort to chase prey, instead concentrating on calling her “missing” cubs to her so she could provide them with dinner. The adorable video ...

Two male lions became infamous for terrorizing and eating humans in 1898 during the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya. Now, an innovative genetic analysis of hairs trapped ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In 1898, two lions that came to be known as the Tsavo ...

Tanzania, in East Africa, is home to some of the greatest conservation areas and parks in the world, including the Serengeti: 12,000 miles of grasslands, forests, swamps, and woodlands teeming with ...

In the African Serengeti, wildebeest give rise to algae and crocodiles, and mass drownings of wildebeest are both tragic and miraculous. It's all a part of the circle of life, to borrow a phrase from ...