Cubs were even traded as gifts to royal families ... They Were Mostly Persecuted to Extinction The Barbary lion was once widespread throughout the Maghreb but drastically dwindled as human ...

But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. Matho’s lost lion cub has been alone for 14 hours. As night approaches with no sign of his mother, he starts to wander ...

The Oakland Zoo has a new little mountain lion cub who also has a favorite toy, a stuffed gorilla that he loves to wrestle ...

This is the oldest skull of a Barbary lion found in the UK. The lion was part of the royal zoo in the Tower of London 700 years ago. Workmen digging in the old moat around the Tower of London in 1937 ...

Two African lion cubs were born in June at The Phoenix Zoo. You can help pick their names. Voting ends Sept. 22.

According to new research, two sets of sabers and unusual lower jaw anatomy show that the saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis delayed adulting with a long weaning period Katie Cottingham A trail ...

The male lion bared his canines at the cubs as they tried to get him to join in on the playful action. The three cubs were seen wrestling and rolling around on the grass while they played.

Qays, the male Barbary lion in the Belfast Zoo enclosure where ... They have produced more than eight cubs, the zoo previously said, in a bid to ensure the survival of the species.

Footage released by the Oakland Zoo on Friday, September 13, shows the cub wrestling with "his favorite stuffy, 'King Kong.'" ...

This story appears in the November 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Barbary macaque is a monkey of many distinctions. It is the only primate, other than humans, north of the Sahara ...

A 30-year-old man has been arrested after a lion cub was discovered in an apartment in the suburbs of Paris. According to French media, police were alerted after the suspect tried to sell the six ...