Usually, the Barbary lion is classified as the subspecies Panthera leo leo. A recent taxonomic study has suggested that the Barbary lion is the same subspecies as the Asiatic and West African ...

MikeLane45 / Getty Images. The Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo) was a native of the Atlas Mountains of Africa, which include parts of Morocco, Algeria, and Maghreb.Being a cold-weather animal, they ...

In 2016, a study in Scientific Reports suggested a revision of lion taxonomy to incorporate a northern (Panthera leo leo) and a southern (P. l. melanochaita) subspecies of African lion.

Using carbon dating, Museum scientists determined that one of the lions lived between 1420 and 1480. The other lived between 1280 and 1385, making it the oldest lion found in the UK since the ...

"The lion (Panthera leo, sensu lato) had one of the largest geographical distributions of any terrestrial mammal during the Late Pleistocene, ranging from southern Africa (Panthera leo ssp ...

Thirty-thousand years ago, different types of lions prowled the globe, hunting prey on four continents. One of the most prolific, the cave lion, roamed from Spain all the way through Eurasia and ...

Phylogeography of lions (Panthera leo ssp.) reveals three distinct taxa and a late Pleistocene reduction in genetic diversity Molecular Ecology, 18 (8), 1668-1677 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04134.x ...

Previously, the cave lion Panthera leo spelaea was found across much of Eurasia and as far as Alaska and Canada. But cave lions died out 13 000 years ago, perhaps partly due to humans, ...

This thirteenth-century lion skull, on display in the Museum's Treasures Cadogan Gallery, was dug up from the Tower of London moat. Accept cookies? ... Skull of a Barbary lion, Panthera leo leo, dated ...