In 1898, two lions attacked dozens of people before Lt. Col. Patterson killed the cats. The Field Museum, #Z93658 They are perhaps the world’s most notorious wild lions. Their ancestors were vilified ...

Visitors to a museum in the US read notes pasted on a glass screen then admire two figures of stuffed lions mounted on a background that is a poor imitation of the animals’ original habitat. More than ...

The lions have been housed as taxidermy specimens at the Field Museum in Chicago since 1925. Superx308 Jeffrey Jung via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1898, a pair of maneless male lions ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In 1898, two lions that came to be known as the Tsavo ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction : a confluence at Tsavo -- The reign of terror : the lions of Tsavo attack -- The terror continues : man-eating lions today -- Killing behavior and man ...

CHICAGO -- The legend of the man-eating Tsavo lions, reputed killers of 135 people, may have more myth than meat to it, a study says. The two lions, now stuffed and on display at Chicago's Field ...