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.

Five lions were sprawled out and sunning on rocks alongside Kenya’s Voi River. Hippos wallowed nearby. Elephants drank and splashed. Then, on some imperceptible signal, the mood shifted. The lions ...

The man-eating lions of Tsavo, exhibited at Chicago's Field Museum since 1925, continue to captivate visitors 100 years later. The lions, responsible for killing at least 28 people in 1898 while ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Passengers aboard the first Kampala-bound train as railway resumed services to Uganda ...

Yet, none of these compared to the deadly two male lions around Tsavo camp that brought construction to a standstill. The lions brazenly attacked the 32,000-strong Indian workers and their local ...

Satao Camp near Tsavo East National Park offered comfortable ... On one dusky drive, our local guide spotted two male lions lolling on a dirt field, plagued by tsetse flies. We watched for half ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The captured male and female eventually were released in Tsavo West. Previous experience suggests they probably haven’t survived: Lions dumped without acclimation into another pride’s ...