In 1898, a pair of maneless male lions began terrorizing crews building the Kenya-Uganda Railway, killing and eating dozens ...

Genetic analysis of cavity crud from two famed man-eating lions suggests the method could re-create diets of predators that lived thousands of years ago.

Amani and Mujambi, a pair of African lions who had been together for 16 years were euthanised by Australia’s Adelaide Zoo.

Given half a chance, lions aren't above chewing on the occasional Homo sapien that might stray unguarded into their territory.

Adelaide Zoo claims Amani was euthanised as negative impacts on her welfare ‘outweighed any benefits of keeping the lioness ...

Science confidently informs Coloradans that mountain lion populations self-regulate. In layman’s terms, that means that trophy hunting is not managing their populations, and that they will not explode ...

Cecil, the magnificent male lion killed in Zimbabwe last July ... where wealthy fat-cats shoot down endangered big cats trapped behind fences and unable to escape.” Of the 719 lions whose ...

Lions are the second-largest big cats, following tigers. Male lions typically weigh between 330 and 550 pounds (about 149.7 and 249.5 kilograms) and can be 8.3 feet (2.53 meters) long. Female lions ...

Adelaide Zoo claims Amani was euthanised as negative impacts on her welfare ‘outweighed any benefits of keeping the lioness ...

The liger is actually the largest of the big cats, although it is a hybrid resulting from crossing a male lion with a female tiger and does not occur naturally in the wild. It has the strength of a ...