Once the pride of North Africa, the Barbary lion was thought to be extinct in the wild – but could it still survive today? In ...

Eastern Cougars Declared Extinct—But That Might Not be Bad. The elusive big cats vanished from the northeastern U.S. nearly 100 years ago, but their western cousins may be expanding their range.

Extinct giants, such as the American cheetah and ground sloth, lived in North America until they mysteriously died out about 10,000 years ago.

Salis’s research revealed that this lion lineage went extinct around 33,000 years ago. That extinction of cave lions in eastern Beringia could be attributed to a warming trend in the region ...

13,000 years ago, North Americans used cheetah, lion bones to sew furs against the blistering cold. ... lynx, and the now-extinct American cheetah (Miracinonyx trumani), according to Phys.org.

A sick mountain lion found and euthanized in Douglas County in 2023 was the first confirmed case of staggering disease in North America, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said Tuesday.

The North American tour of Disney's The Lion King will welcome Danny Grumich as Pumbaa and Thom Christopher Warren as the Standby for Scar, Zazu, Timon & Pumbaa. Learn more about the new cast and ...

The American lion was the largest extinct cat to live in North America during the last ice age, according to the National Park Service. Known by its scientific name, Panthera atrox, meaning ...

But these megafauna went extinct around the end of the Ice Ace. ... American lion. ... They start showing up in the North American fossil record between 300,000 and 130,000 years ago.

Coincidentally, the first ever American lion fossil was also found in Mississippi, in 1836, though paleontologists didn’t identify it as a newly discovered species until nearly two decades later.