Research on Tsavo lion museum specimens from the 1890s, using DNA isolated from hairs in their teeth, reveals a diverse diet ...

Ancient DNA confirms that the nineteenth-century carnivores hunted humans and a variety of wild game, including a surprising ...

Genetic analysis of cavity crud from two famed man-eating lions suggests the method could re-create diets of predators that lived thousands of years ago.

Hairs trapped in cavities of the infamous lions that hunted humans in Kenya’s Tsavo region in 1898 revealed the surprising ...

The researchers discovered a surprising range of prey, including giraffe, human, oryx, waterbuck, wildebeest, and zebra. The ...

By isolating and sequencing DNA in compacted hairs collected from the teeth of two Tsavo lion museum specimens from the 1890s, researchers have found ...

They then extracted DNA from individual hair shafts, and while it wasn’t perfect, it was enough to paint a picture of the ...

From this technique analyzing the hair’s DNA, the team identified giraffe, human, oryx, waterbuck, wildebeest and zebra as ...

The Tsavo man-eaters terrorized railroad workers in British East Africa in the 19th century, but their tastes went well ...

Scientists extract DNA from hair embedded in the Tsavo lions' jaws that reveals the species of prey they ate while they were ...

Scientists used DNA sequencing to analyze the hair fragments found in the canine teeth of the infamous ‘Tsavo man-eaters.’ ...

Scientists analyzed hairs extracted from the broken teeth of two 19th century 'man-eater' lions. Their analysis revealed DNA from giraffe, human, oryx, waterbuck, wildebeest and zebra as prey, along ...