Two men unlawfully killed a lion in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe to sell its parts. Forensic technology provided the ...

By Spoorthy Raman A CSI-style investigation in Zimbabwe helped to successfully prosecute two people for killing a lion and trafficking its teeth, flesh and other body parts in February. Forensic ...

As any true crime fan knows, DNA has been groundbreaking in solving criminal cases, both current and cold, for police departments around the nation. Recently, in a first-of-its-kind case, DNA has been ...

Given half a chance, lions aren't above chewing on the occasional Homo sapien that might stray unguarded into their territory. Fortunately, few of the African big cats have ever made a habit of ...

Investigators reveal how they were able to identify a missing animal using a database of lions in Zimbabwe.

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 ...

The lions’ teeth had been damaged during their lifetimes. Study coauthor Thomas Gnoske found thousands of hairs embedded in the exposed cavities of the broken teeth. By isolating and sequencing DNA in ...

(CNN) — Two male lions became infamous for terrorizing and eating humans in 1898 during construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya. Now, an innovative genetic analysis of hairs ...