These hyaenodonts gave the world some of its largest terrestrial, carnivorous mammals ever known. And while these behemoths were the apex predators of their time, they were no match for a changing world.

Hyenas weren’t always able to eat bones. In fact, only a few million years ago, they lived very different lives.

Stripes! Hexagons! They're everywhere! These patterns in nature might seem like aesthetic coincidences, but they are actually the result of physical process that show up again and again, even in otherwise unrelated phenomena.

Bones are hard to digest and can be downright dangerous to eat, but some animals have evolved pretty bizarre adaptations to accommodate their crunchy, splintery diets.

"Puppets always have to try to be alive," says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of human and wooden actors. Beginning with the tale of a hyena's subtle paw, puppeteers Kohler and Basil Jones...

Throughout history and around the world, most people dislike hyenas. But why?

Keith Bellows gleefully outlines the engineering marvels of the camel, a vital creature he calls "the SUV of the desert." Though he couldn't bring a live camel to TED, he gets his camera crew as close as humanly possible to a one-ton...

Hyenas communicate via an information-dense physical medium (hyena butter) - and now MinuteEarth does too (book).

A keeper sheds light on some myths and misconceptions about hyenas.

Migration is nearly universal within the animal kingdom; Animals across the globe, from birds and mammals to reptiles and insects, migrate for a whole variety of different reasons. Resources on Earth fluctuate and change constantly. Warm...

African folklore dictates that unlike other werecreatures this monster is an animal that disguises itself in human form. By day it walks the earth nearly indistinguishable from humans, but at night it returns to its true hyena shape. We...

Letter H book designed to make children familiar with the objects starting from letter H and how it looks

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Dragons | The History & Origin Stories You Were Never Told

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: HANDSOME lion wrangler Shandor Larenty is so busy with his lions and hyenas - who like to give him kisses - has no time for romantic relationships with girls. While his friends were out partying and enjoying...

FIVE of nature's most fearful animals have formed a bond - after the baby animals were abandoned by their mums. The baby animals - three lions cubs, a tiger cub, and a spotted hyena cub are having a roaring good time at the Akwaaba Lodge...

These women are as brutal as they come...

NSF-funded paleontologists have discovered a new species of hyaenodont, a type of extinct meat-eating mammal. Named Pakakali rukwaensis, it was the size of a bobcat and was the main mammalian predator on the African continent between 25...

A small pack of hyenas on a grassland. Two hyenas circle each other on a grassland. Two hyenas stalk through the grassland. A female hyena carries a fresh kill in its jaws and is approached by its cubs. A hyena sits in a waterhole...

Thanks to an unknown beast seemingly roaming the countryside and tearing innocent people limb from limb, the years 1764-1767 were not a great time to be a citizen of rural France. The Beast of Gévaudan, named after the southern province...

Going Wild - Meet a Bull Elephant and a Lioness & her Cubs

A fun and engaging Easter Egg Surprise video where Romi Rabbit and his friends open colourful Easter eggs to reveal different wild animals and the sounds they make.

A fun and engaging Easter Egg Surprise video where Romi Rabbit and his friends open colourful Easter eggs to reveal different wild animals and the sounds they make.