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

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.

Wim van den Heever says it took him ten years to finally photograph the rare and elusive brown hyena in Namibia's abandoned mining town of Kolmanskop.

Photographer Wim van den Heever used his decade-old Nikon D810 to capture a rare brown hyena in a ghost town, winning the ...

The town, called Kolmanskop, is a ghost of what it used to be in the early 1900s. Wim's photograph aptly captures its eerie vibe.

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

A wild animal, possibly a wolf or hyena, attacked and injured six individuals in Deoni tehsil, targeting areas like the eyes and head. Victims were hospitalized, and the creature caused mayhem near ...

An amazing video shows an African rock python devouring a hyena at a wildlife reserve in Africa. The stomach-churning encounter was caught on tape near the side of the road at Kenya’s Masai Mara ...

A Kenyan politician's plan to export hyena testicles and other animal products has caused pandemic alarm among vets. George Wajackoyah, a professor and candidate for Kenya's Roots party in the ...

About 65,000 years ago, a large carnivore — perhaps a cave hyena — chomped down on the face of a (likely dead) Neanderthal. Then, that carnivore partially digested two of the hominin's teeth before ...