Scavengers often get a bad rap — hyena giggles are nefarious, crows gather in “murders” and the naked necks of vultures speak for themselves. But the bodies of the dead don’t just disappear.

For Some Species, the Girls Come with Boy Bits August 26, 2016 | Carin Bondar Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) in the Masai Mara, Kenya. | Credit: Laika ac ...

For the first time in over five millennia, a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) has been documented in Egypt, marking an extraordinary event in the region’s wildlife history. This solitary predator ...

In humans, sometimes the enlarged clitoris can resemble a penis; more often, it just looks like a large clit. The pseudopenises of female spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta), however, are different.

A new scientific study shows for the first time in spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) twin litters, that success in sibling competition for maternal milk is influenced by training effects, sex and ...

An African wild dog (Lycaon pictus, left) compared to a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta, right). Both photographed at the Bronx Zoo. It never fails. Whenever I visit a zoo’s African wild dog ...

The skull of a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), photographed at the AMNH’s “Extreme Mammals” exhibit. \\[Author’s note: This post gets a little bit graphic, so those who are made squeamish ...

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 skull of a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), photographed at the AMNH’s “Extreme Mammals” exhibit. [Author’s note: This post gets a little bit graphic, so those who are made squeamish ...