Of the dog-like hyena lineage, only the insectivorous aardwolf survived, while the bone-crushing hyenas ( whose extant members are the spotted, brown and striped hyena ) became the undisputed top scavengers of Eurasia and Africa.

The European form was similar in appearance to modern populations, but was larger, being comparable in size to the brown hyena.

The spotted hyena diverged from the striped and brown hyena 10 million years ago.

Furthermore, the living brown hyena and its closest extinct relatives are not included in the genus Pachycrocuta, but in the genus Hyaena.

Hyaena is a genus comprising two of the living species of hyenas: the striped hyena ( Hyaena hyaena ) from western Asia and northern Africa and the brown hyena ( Hyaena brunnea ) from southern Africa.

The male brown hyena is slightly larger than the female, while the sexes of the striped hyena are both the same size.

In the Kalahari desert, leopards frequently lose kills to the brown hyena, if the leopard is unable to move the kill into a tree.

The European form was similar in appearance to modern populations, but was larger, being comparable in size to the brown hyena.

The skull of the striped hyena differs from that of the brown and spotted hyena by its smaller size and slightly less massive build.

The brown hyena ( Hyaena brunnea, formerly Parahyaena brunnea ) is a species of hyena which occurs in Namibia, Botswana, western and southern Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique and South Africa.

Emigration is common in brown hyena clans, particularly among young males, which will join other groups upon reaching adulthood.

The De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre, renowned for its success in breeding and studying cheetah, king cheetah, brown hyena, suni, blue duiker and wild dogs is situated in the small town of De Wildt, just east of Brits.

All Zimbabwe's specially protected animals are to be found in Hwange and it is the only protected area where gemsbok and brown hyena occur in reasonable numbers.

One hundred and twenty thousand years ago, during a warmer part of the Ice Age, the whole area was a riverside swamp, and skeletons of a hippopotamus, elephant, brown bear, hyena and bison have been found there.

However leopard was naturally present as was brown hyena and mountain reedbuck.

The spider-leg pedestal table has a base finished in an ebony, to set off the lustrous brown of the walnut top.

It had been painted a dreary brown and many of its interior color schemes had been abandoned or allowed to deteriorate, but it has since been restored and many of the original colors revived.

This moth has been introduced to the eastern United States and is common near many towns ; it is about 12 cm across, with angulated wings, and in colour olive brown, with white markings.

While the brown bear's range has shrunk and it has faced local extinctions, it remains listed as a least concern species by the IUCN with a total population of approximately 200, 000.

The breast is an apocrine gland that produces milk to feed an infant child ; for which the nipple of the breast is centred in ( surrounded by ) an areola ( nipple-areola complex, NAC ), the skin color of which varies from pink to dark brown, and has many sebaceous glands.

It also has a short, bristly and vertical brown ridge of hair along the spine from the shoulder to the rump ; the white stripes run into this ridge.

Until recently they were widely believed to be fungi, but structural and molecular evidence has led to their reclassification as heterokonts, related to autotrophic brown algae and diatoms.

Fur colour in American wolves ranges from white, black, red, yellow, brown, grey, and grizzled skins, and others representing every shade between, although usually each locality has its prevailing tint.

Goeldi's marmosets are blackish or blackish-brown in color and the hair on their head and tail sometimes has red, white, or silverly brown highlights.

The coat has dark blotches or patches ( which can be orange, chestnut, brown or nearly black on color ) separated by light hair ( usually white or cream in color ).

Humus has a characteristic black or dark brown color, due to an accumulation of organic soil carbon | carbon.

The tail is brown with black bars in females, and has a black tip with a narrow white rim in both sexes.

One of the earlier versions of the macrobiotic diet that involved eating only brown rice and water has been linked to severe nutritional deficiencies and even death.

One of the earlier versions of the macrobiotic diet that involved eating only brown rice and water has been linked to severe nutritional deficiencies and even death.

Louis Farrakhan has stated " If you look at the human family — now, I'm talking about black, brown, red, yellow and white — we all seem to be frozen on a subhuman level of existence.

In 1984, Physicist Richard A. Muller postulated that the Sun has a heretofore undetected companion, either a brown dwarf or a red dwarf, in an elliptical orbit within the Oort cloud.

Although it is closely related to the brown bear, it has evolved to occupy a narrower ecological niche, with many body characteristics adapted for cold temperatures, for moving across snow, ice, and open water, and for hunting the seals which make up most of its diet.

Most brown bears have about 2 percent genetic material from polar bears, but one population residing in the Alexander Archipelago has between 5 percent and 10 percent polar bear genes, indicating more frequent and recent mating.

Polar bears can breed with brown bears to produce fertile grizzly – polar bear hybrids, rather than indicating that they have only recently diverged, the new evidence suggests more frequent mating has continued over a longer period of time, and thus the two bears remain genetically similar.

The bear population has bred successfully, and there are now believed to be about 15 brown bears in the central region around Fos, but only four native ones are still living in the Aspe Valley.

As it matures, this color changes color to a mixture of buff, tawny, cinnamon and brown along the body and a black tipped tail ; it often has black guard hairs too and sometimes presents with black or dark bars on its forelegs.

Note that the English word jaggery, a coarse brown sugar made from date palm sap or sugar cane juice, has a similar etymological origin ; Portuguese xagara or jagara, derived from Malayalam cakkarā from the Sanskrit śarkarā.

Gaseous nitrogen dioxide has a characteristic red absorption feature, and this gives air polluted with nitrogen dioxide a reddish brown color.

This brown is sometimes so rich in medium as to appear to be oil paint.

The brown bear is sometimes referred to as the bruin, from Middle English, based on the name of the bear in History of Reynard the Fox, translated by William Caxton, from Middle Dutch bruun or bruyn, meaning brown ( the color ).

The ground was tinted light brown, sometimes reddish, or ochre in colour.

The vast majority of Mongols have black hair and brown eyes, although a certain number of Mongols, particularly the Oirat tribe in western Mongolia tend to exhibit lighter features such as fair skin, blue or green eyes, varying shades of brown hair, and sometimes even red or blonde hair.

Similarly, brown is sometimes associated with Nazism, going back to the Nazi Party's tan-uniformed storm troopers.

Typically, the build-up of a natural pearl consists of a brown central zone formed by columnar calcium carbonate ( usually calcite, sometimes columnar aragonite ) and a yellowish to white outer zone consisting of nacre ( tabular aragonite ).

The Sloughi's eyes are ideally dark brown, though sometimes of amber colour.

Sapphires also occur in shades of orange and brown, and colorless sapphires are sometimes used as diamond substitutes in jewelry.

Brazilian Imperial Topaz can often have a bright yellow to deep golden brown hue, sometimes even violet.

The outer sheath was often yellow-to-orange / brown foam fluorinated ethylene propylene ( for fire resistance ) so it often is called " yellow cable ", " orange hose ", or sometimes humorously " frozen yellow garden hose ".

The major diseases in temperate environments include the following, arranged in a rough order of their significance from cooler to warmer climates: eyespot, Stagonospora nodorum blotch ( also known as glume blotch ), yellow or stripe rust, powdery mildew, Septoria tritici blotch ( sometimes known as leaf blotch ), brown or leaf rust, Fusarium head blight, tan spot and stem rust.

* Shōyu (" soy sauce ") ramen typically has a clear brown broth, based on a chicken and vegetable ( or sometimes fish or beef ) stock with plenty of soy sauce added resulting in a soup that is tangy, salty, and savory yet still fairly light on the palate.

The new spring shoots are sometimes called " candles "; they are covered in brown or whitish bud scales and point upward at first, then later turn green and spread outward.

Their skin consists of numerous, fine transverse rings and is often inconspicuously coloured orange, red or brown, but sometimes also bright green, blue, gold or white, and occasionally patterned with other colours.

Besides the gemstone varieties that show a play of color, there are other kinds of common opal such as the milk opal, milky bluish to greenish ( which can sometimes be of gemstone quality ); resin opal, which is honey-yellow with a resinous luster ; wood opal, which is caused by the replacement of the organic material in wood with opal ; menilite, which is brown or grey ; hyalite, a colorless glass-clear opal sometimes called Muller's Glass ; geyserite, also called siliceous sinter, deposited around hot springs or geysers ; and diatomite or diatomaceous earth, the accumulations of diatom shells or tests.

* Pileus: 2 – 8 cm, Conic to convex, becoming broadly convex to plane in age, may retain a slight umbo, margin even, reddish-cinnamon brown when young becoming golden brown in age, viscid when moist, hygrophanous, glabrous, sometimes with white universal veil remnants decorating the cap, more or less smooth.

In its brown form it is sometimes called brown hematite or brown iron ore.