A mum frantically pulled her five-year-old son from the mouth of a bloodsoaked hyena after it ripped his jaw off in a horror attack. Little Abel Mesfin was left severely disfigured when he was set ...

A new study led by Dr. Jack Tseng and published in PeerJ Life & Environment has shed light on the intricate relationship between tooth wear and jaw mechanics in highly carnivorous mammals, known as ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting the ...

Biomechanical research across two very different lineages of predators, spotted hyenas and crocodilians, is revealing how skull architecture and jaw mechanics produce some of the most extreme ...

The fossilized upper jaw of the Gansu hyena, seen from top (left) and from below. The palate is broad and similar to that of the aardwolf, which has a more muscular tongue for slurping termites.

The skull of a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), photographed at the AMNH's "Extreme Mammals" exhibit. [Author's note: This post gets a little bit graphic, so those who are made squeamish by taphonomy ...