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 ...

How Do Lions Hunt Wildebeest? Wildebeests and zebras are common prey for lions. Wildebeests can sprint up to 50 miles per hour, while zebras typically run at speeds around 40 miles per hour. A lion’s ...

[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 ...

Lions may not have the cheetah's speed or the leopard's forest cover but they have other tricks. Lions may not have the cheetah's speed or the leopard's forest cover. But they have other tricks for ...

Each year on the Serengeti, hundreds of thousands of wildebeest calves are born within weeks. Here's how the young predators ...

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 ...

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 ...

The lions’ teeth had been damaged during their lifetimes. Study coauthor Thomas Gnoske found thousands of hairs embedded in the exposed cavities of the broken teeth. By isolating and sequencing DNA in ...

When a baby wildebeest gets separated from its herd, its instincts will tell it to approach any mammals around - but if the only animals in sight are lions, its ...

Puzzles’ young pack turns their attention to bigger prey. By working together, they manage to take down a wildebeest calf, a feat that is rarely attempted. They turn their attention to bigger prey.