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 ...

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 ...

Scientists reconstructed the mitochondrial genome of a European Woolly Rhinoceros for the first time. Extracting DNA from fossilized hyena feces was critical to the process. Using the DNA, the team ...

A few hundred thousand years ago during Earth's most recent Ice Age, a beefy subspecies of spotted hyena that was more than double the weight of its modern relative roamed Eurasia's snow-glazed ...

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 ...