Extinct cave lions (Panthera leo spelaea) likely lacked manes, perhaps making them unappealing to African lions. Photograph by DeAgostini, Getty/Artwork by Mike Donnelly The paper “looks into ...

When it comes to African wildlife, few things capture the imagination like the Big Five animals. I still remember the first ...

A rare elephant sighting in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park — the first in six years — is renewing hope for the species' survival.

Fighting is a part of life for lions, but it can be brutal. Watch this shocking clip of a lion fight and then learn exactly what is going on.

African lions (Panthera leo) are large and strong animals with sharp teeth and claws and a powerful bite. They can do a lot of damage to each other should they choose to, but why would an ...

The second word is the specific name identifying the species, usually defined as a population that can reproduce only with each other, such as Panthera leo for lion. Every two-word combination must be ...

The Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica), once widespread across West Asia and northern India, faced near extinction by the early 20th century due to hunting and habitat loss. By the 1900s ...

As apex predators, lions (Panthera leo) roam the African savanna, and occasionally even the rainforests, as the only social big cats. A small, isolated population of Asiatic lions (Panthera leo ...

Last month, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) published its first Green Status assessment, a relatively new global standard of measurement envisioned to complement the IUCN ...

The situation is especially acute at the edges of protected areas (PAs), where animals like the African lion (Panthera leo) range outside PAs and into human-dominated landscapes. There, they ...

PTI And now, in a new reality check, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has released its first Green Status assessment for the lion (Panthera leo), classifying the species as ...