Scientists are working on a machine learning tool that could, one day, identify individual animals from photographs of their footprints. By Ryan Truscott / Hakai Magazine Published Aug 21, 2024 8:09 ...

Namibia's brown hyenas live in small clans but often travel and hunt alone. Thorsten Milse/robertharding/Getty Images Some wild animals are relatively easy to study. Certain penguin populations, for ...

Some wild animals are relatively easy to study. Certain penguin populations, for instance, are so unaccustomed to large predators that they barely fear humans and will often wander right up to ...

A rare brown hyena roams Kolmanskop, a Namibian ghost town. Photographer Wim van den Heever captured this elusive creature, winning the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 award. The image ...

South African photographer Wim van den Heever says it took him ten years to finally photograph the rare and elusive brown hyena in Namibia's abandoned mining town of Kolmanskop. Brown hyenas are the ...

Wildlife photographers use a mix of patience, perseverance, and perfect timing to capture moments that most of us would never get a chance to witness otherwise. @nhm_wpy (Wildlife Photographer of the ...

An image of a rare hyena standing in front of an abandoned building in a former diamond mining town in Namibia has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 award. Shot by South African ...