Modern Tsavo lions prefer Cape buffalo. But the man-eating lions had virtually no buffalo hair in their teeth, an absence consistent with the spread of rinderpest, a cattle disease, through Africa ...

Patterson later wrote a book, "The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures," in which he said the lions were to blame for the deaths of 135 people.

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

(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The famous man-eating lions of Tsavo at the Field Museum did more than just that. A new study explores what else they ate more than a century ago. Using hair found in the ...

The first of the two Tsavo man-eating lions (FMNH 23970) shot by Lt. Col. Patterson. (Image credit: Field Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) ...

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 trapped ...

The “Tsavo man-eaters,” as the male African lions are known, have been mythologized in books and Hollywood movies. Historical accounts have described how they ate dozens of people who worked ...

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

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 trapped ...

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 trapped ...

(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 ...