Scientists know a great deal about how lions hunt, breed and survive, but the microscopic communities living inside them have ...

A safari vehicle pulls up beside a sleeping white lion, one of fewer than a handful roaming free in the wild, and what happens next captures just how unbothered these extraordinary cats can be about ...

Lions are complicated creatures, magnificent at a distance yet fearsomely inconvenient to the rural peoples whose fate is to live among them. They are lords of the wild savanna but inimical to ...

Africa’s lions are under pressure from shrinking habitat, growing settlements and conflict with people living close to wildlife areas. The warning comes as conservationists mark World Lion Day, with ...

In the vast grasslands of Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park, a lion named Jacob has challenged everything science thought it knew about survival and adaptation among big cats. Disabled by ...

The lions are back at the Saint Louis Zoo! After more than a year without lions, one African lion will debut to the public Tuesday, with another set to arrive soon.

Very few animals in the wild have the power to evoke such awe and inspiration as the African lion. Yet despite our reverence for these iconic big cats, lions have been wiped out of large swathes of ...

A young TikToker filmed walking a lion cub on a leash down a South African street left passersby scrambling and Mzansi asking whether it is legal.

The endless plains of East Africa is lion country. An abundance of food and water make this a paradise for lions. The most social of all cats, lions form prides that are unlike any other animals.

The incident is the latest in a troubling pattern across East Africa, where large animals have increasingly turned up dead from suspected poisoning. Since June, at least 20 elephants have died in ...