The animals help redistribute calcium and phosphorous by crunching bones. This is an Inside Science story. The crushing jaws of hyenas may act as a kind of nutrient blender, grinding out calcium and ...

The extraordinary discovery of the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) in Egypt after 5,000 years of being assumed extinct in the country serves as a high point of evolution and an anomaly in its own ...

The discovery stunned researchers because striped hyenas are known mainly as scavengers who feed on carcasses and bone fragments in the shadows of larger predators.

When you think of a hyena, you make think of their signature laughter. But not all hyenas laugh. In fact, their laughter is actually a vocalization of distress, often used to signal threats or attacks ...

Hyenas aren’t the most popular animals. Sometimes they kill people’s livestock. They are also thought of as scavengers, with some unappealing eating behaviour. Then there’s their cackling “laugh” and ...

Of the hundred or so known species of hyena—living and extinct—that stalked the earth, all have been meat eaters or omnivores except one, the aardwolf, which, mysteriously, eats termites. What ...