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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This particular hyena, Sauqué and coauthors ...

A few hundred thousand years ago during Earth's most recent Ice Age, a beefy subspecies of spotted hyena that was more than double the weight of its modern relative roamed Eurasia's snow-glazed ...

The cave hyena, named Crocuta crocuta spelaea, lived for about 1 million years in Eurasia, before dying out some 10,000 to 30,000 years ago. Not only were they about 25 percent larger than modern ...

A team of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) analyzed teeth fossils from ancient predators to see what they preyed on during the Pleistocene epoch. The team found that ...