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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...