A century after joining the Field Museum’s collection, the Tsavo lions remain one of the museum's most important displays.

Two of the most infamous man-eating lions in history are celebrating a milestone at the Field Museum. The Tsavo Lions arrived ...

In 1898, two lions that came to be known as the Tsavo man-eaters relentlessly hunted workers of the ... [+] Kenya-Uganda railway in the dead of night before eventually being taken down.

The story of the man-eating lions is fairly well-known, but one Field Museum expert went the extra mile to confirm a specific part of the story.

A genomic study of the maneless Tsavo lions confirmed that they were likely siblings. Pictured: a pair of maneless lions living today in the Tsavo region.

In the 1990s, a team from the Kenya Wildlife Service and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago found a cave that the “man-eater” lions had used in Tsavo, Kenya. The team included ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson sold the bodies of the Tsavo lions to the Field Museum in ...

Max Herman/For the Sun-Times Share A century after the notorious Tsavo lions were added to the Field Museum’s collection, scientists are still discovering new details about the predators that ...