As a mammalogist at the Field Museum, Patterson oversees some 230,000 specimens. “Few have stories to tell that are as exciting as these two,” he said. When the museum bought the lions in 1925 ...

Lt. Col. Patterson sold the Tsavo Lions to the Field Museum during a trip through Chicago in 1925 —only four years after the Field Museum opened in its current building at 1400 S. DuSable Lake ...

A century after the infamous Tsavo lions were added to the Field Museum’s collection, scientists continue to uncover new details about the predators that once terrorized railway workers in Kenya ...

The lions, responsible for killing at least 28 people in 1898 while building a railroad bridge in Kenya, were eventually ...

In 1898, two lions attacked dozens of people before Lt. Col. Patterson killed the cats. The Field Museum, #Z93658. They are perhaps the world’s most notorious wild lions.

Patterson kept the lions' skins as floor rugs for 25 years before selling their remains ... a collections manager at the Field Museum, found the lions’ skulls in storage and examined them ...

Severe mouth pain likely led the Tsavo lions to kill and eat people 119 years ago in Kenya. Skip to main content. ... (Image credit: Bruce Patterson and JP Brown, The Field Museum) ...

Patterson studied lions at 17 zoos across the United States, ... where the costs of overheating are great and most male lions have little or no mane,” Patterson said in a Field Museum news article.

A century after joining the Field Museum’s collection, the Tsavo lions remain one of the museum's most important displays. New research into their behavior and unique features continues to ...

Human remains have been found embedded in the teeth of two lions on display in a museum. The Tsavo “man-eaters” became infamous after killing at least 28 people in 1898 when they terrorized an ...