South African photographer Wim van den Heever has received this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year award for his image of a brown hyena outside a ruined diamond mining town.

Across Africa, hyenas are seen as evil, greedy, and associated with witchcraft and sexual deviance. Even the 1994 movie The Lion King portrayed them as cunning and malicious. While four hyena ...

The striking image earned South African photographer Wim van den Heever the Natural History Museum in London's top honor ...

The story behind the award-winning photo of an elusive brown hyena bringing new life to the Namib Desert.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A hyena has mauled a 15-year-old boy at a camp in South Africa's Kruger National Park, sinking its teeth into the youth's face as he slept in a tent. The grandfather of Erco Janse ...

They are quite misunderstood. Scientists capture footage of rare mammal in unexpected location: 'The presence ... is an ...

Skukuza Golf Club in South Africa is billed as “the wildest course in the world” because there are no fences keeping predatory animals off the grounds. While most critters are nocturnal and do not ...

Like other big cats, the leopard is endangered across west Africa.- Bleak wider picture - Q: What is the situation of ...