CHICAGO (CBS) -- When the Lions of Tsavo first arrived at the Field Museum of Natural History 100 years ago, they had been made into rugs. But taxidermists transformed them into the lifelike ...

Patterson killed the cats. The Field Museum, #Z93658 They are perhaps the world’s most notorious wild lions. Their ancestors were vilified more than 100 years ago as the man-eaters of Tsavo ...

In the late 19th century, two lions unleashed terror on the workers tasked with the construction of the Kenya-Uganda railway Known as the "Man-eaters of Tsavo," this ...

The lions became known as the "Man-Eaters of Tsavo" for their attacks on railway ... eventually hunted and killed the two lions after a difficult hunt that became world-famous.

Tsavo gained international acclaim as a result of two female lions, the world's most maligned and vilified felines that had a fetish for human flesh. The Indians who had become easy prey for the ...

The lions had killed several cows ... to a neighboring national park, Tsavo West. But first they had to be tranquilized. On Christmas Eve night Ole Nashuu and other rangers were joined by Luke ...

One of Kenya's, and perhaps Africa's, largest and oldest elephant Dida has been found dead within Tsavo National Park. A tweet from Kenya Wildlife Service says Dida died of old age. She was ...