Study: Man-eating lions consumed 35 people in 1898
Monday, November 2, 2009 - 16:21
in Health & Medicine
The nightly attacks by two man-eating lions terrified railway workers and brought construction to a halt in one of east Africa's most notorious onslaughts more than a hundred years ago. But the death toll, scientists now say, wasn't as high as previously thought.
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