CHICAGO (CBS) -- When the Lions of Tsavo first arrived at the Field Museum of Natural History 100 years ago, they had been made into rugs. But taxidermists transformed them into the lifelike display ...
[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 ...
The Tsavo man-eaters terrorized railroad workers in British East Africa in the 19th century, but their tastes went well beyond human flesh. By Jack Tamisiea In British East Africa in 1898, two lions ...
Two male lions became infamous for terrorizing and eating humans in 1898 during the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya. Now, an innovative genetic analysis of hairs trapped ...
Wildebeest, zebra and humans? That’s the diet scientists say filled the bellies of two infamously bloodthirsty lions who once terrorized railroad workers. The “Tsavo man-eaters,” as the male African ...