In March 1898, the British began building a bridge over the Tsavo River in modern-day Kenya. The pair of maneless male lions suddenly acquired a taste for humans, and preyed upon the railroad workers.

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. Passengers aboard the first Kampala-bound train as railway resumed services to Uganda ...

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 ...