The only other lion species known to occur in Europe—the cave lion, sometimes classified as Panthera leo spelaea—died out some 6,000 years before the animals unearthed in Southeastern Europe.

There are two subspecies of lion, the nominate Panthera leo leo found in Asia and West and Central Africa, and Panthera leo melanochaita, which is found in eastern and southern Africa.

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 ...

The unidentified African lion (Panthera leo), which was around 20 years old and resided at Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in December 2021 after developing a cough ...

Two lion siblings – one with only three legs ... (0.8 miles), more than 10 times the distance of what was thought to be the longest observed lion paddle. African lions (Panthera leo) ...

The African lion (Panthera leo leo) is found in Africa, south of the Sahara desert. The Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica) exists in one small population around Gir Forest National Park in western ...

In Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda there is a pair of lion (Panthera leo) brothers named Jacob and Tibu.The pair are already known to researchers because of 10-year-old Jacob’s incredible ...

The two lions are a South African lion subspecies, Panthera leo krugeri, which is also known as the Transvaal lion. The subspecies range from the Southern Sahara to South Africa in grassy plains, ...

When Europeans arrived in South Africa in the mid-1600s, Cape lions, ... "What's interesting is that the scientific name of the Cape lion, Panthera leo melanochaitus, ...