A century after the infamous Tsavo lions were added to the Field Museum’s collection, scientists continue to uncover new details about the predators that once terrorized railway workers in Kenya.

By Jack Tamisiea In British East Africa in 1898, two lions living along the Tsavo River were hungry. This was bad news for the workers building a railroad there. They would retreat to their tents ...

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 lions are known ...

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For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.

A recent study has shed new light on the dietary habits of the infamous Tsavo "Man-Eaters" lions through DNA analysis of hairs found in their teeth. Researchers from the University of Illinois ...

Scientists extract DNA from hair embedded in the Tsavo lions' jaws that reveals the species of prey they ate while they were alive. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Donation Options Search Search Search A team from the Field Museum prepares to X-ray one of the lions of Tsavo for research in 2017. Max Herman/For the Sun-Times Share A century after the ...

Two male lions became infamous for terrorizing and eating humans in 1898 during construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya. Now, an innovative genetic analysis of hairs trapped ...