The hyena, a cunning and resilient predator, ... Hyenas have rough, spotted fur, and their ears are rounded. The brown and striped hyenas are slightly smaller and have longer and shaggy fur.

Striped hyenas are the smallest of their family, weighing between 57 to 90 pounds and reaching just 28 inches tall at the shoulder, says National Geographic. They have large, pointed ears which ...

As dusk begins cloaking the Maasai Mara grasslands of southwestern Kenya, a spotted hyena slinks beneath the woody umbrella that is the acacia tree. The carnivore pauses, its rounded ears cocking ...

This mask has the long jaws and ears, but not the overhanging domed forehead, typical of the suruku, or hyena, mask of the Kore society. The projection between the ears, which is found on most suruku ...

The carnivore pauses, its rounded ears cocking forward as a faint sound sails in, an airborne missive traversing three miles at 767 miles per hour. Again, then again. Whhhhhooo-OOOppp!

Scientists have reported a sighting of a spotted hyena in southeastern Egypt—the first such encounter recorded in a whopping 5,000 years. "My first reaction was disbelief until I checked the ...

When a scientist received a video of a spotted hyena in the southern part of his country, he thought someone was playing a trick on him. By Darren Incorvaia The animal killed two goats belonging ...