One of the most notorious occurred in Kenya's Tsavo region in 1898, when two male lions spent months terrorizing workers building a railroad bridge across the Tsavo River. The century-old teeth of ...

Thomas Gnoske, a collections manager at the museum, first spotted thousands of hairs trapped within the lions’ teeth when he examined their skulls in the 1990s. Now, Gnoske and his colleagues in ...

He also was the first to notice that thousands of broken and compacted hairs had accumulated in exposed cavities in the lions' damaged teeth during their lifetimes. In 2001, Gnoske and Julian ...

New DNA sequencing using tiny hairs that were carefully extracted from the lions’ broken teeth has revealed that the predators ate humans, wildebeests, giraffes, and more. The findings are ...

A team of scientists has now identified exactly what kinds of prey the so-called "Tsavo Man-Eaters" fed upon, based on DNA analysis of hairs collected from the lions' teeth, according to a recent ...

By Stephen Beech via SWNS Human remains have been found embedded in the teeth of two lions on display in a museum. The Tsavo “man-eaters” became infamous after killing at least 28 people in ...

And lion hair trapped in their teeth suggests that the brothers were closely bonded and groomed one another, Kerbis Peterhans said.Tracing links to preyThe researchers uncovered several surprises ...