Watching these cubs grow will inspire our guests to learn more about lions and how to protect them,” an Audubon Zoo official ...

Mountain lions are fierce predators that rule their territory with sharp claws and powerful jaws. But even these big cats ...

But in over 10,000 recordings of wildlife on the African savannah, 95 percent of the species observed responded with far more terror to the sound of an entirely different beast. This animal isn't even ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

Cowbirds also closely follow livestock and catch insects disturbed by the large animals’ movements and feed upon seeds that ...

All species have evolved with competition, and the five species of large African carnivore—the lion, spotted hyena (hereafter hyena), wild dog, leopard, and cheetah—are perfect examples of this ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Four rival families - leopards, hyena, wild dogs and lions - all fight to claim a remote Zambian paradise as their home. Who ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists ...

GIR SANCTUARY, India - A peacock shrieks. A monkey scrambles higher into the fire-colored canopy of a kesudo tree. And an Asiatic lion - one of the last few hundred in the wild - pads across the dusty ...

Contributing writer Chris Colin travels halfway around the world with his family to take a first-of-its-kind safari, and ...

Though appearing similar with their golden coats and rosette spots, jaguars and leopards are distinct big cats. Jaguars ...