(Todd Ryburn Photography/Getty Images) Lions are built for terror. With their bladed paws, wielded by a rippling mass of pure ...

The effects can ripple through food webs, landscapes, and even local economies.

Walking confidently across the open grasslands, the African lion is one of the world's most recognizable and powerful predators. Native to sub-Saharan Africa, lions are unique among big cats because ...

Lions have been intensively farmed for commercial purposes in South Africa since the 1990s. These wild animals are exploited as entertainment attractions for tourists, like cub petting and "walk with ...

He’s the cat’s paw-jamas. A zoo in Texas welcomed its first African lion cub in nine years, and he’s been “pouncing and playing” with his proud mom. The Fort Worth Zoo opened its hearts to bouncing ...

Protecting lions and the interests of cattle producers in Kenya is a difficult balancing act. In a recent Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution article, Dr. Laurence G Frank, a researcher at the Museum ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When people think of lions, the image that comes to mind is ...

Hitting a moving target will be a bit more complicated this spring for participants in U.S. Africa Command’s largest annual multinational exercise. Planners of African Lion aim to deploy soldier-like ...

New results reveal that many of Africa’s remaining lions live within small, fragmented populations at risk of disappearing. The researchers developed a new framework which integrates ecological and ...

A new gene study questions a widely held belief about the thousands of lions living on farms across the country bred for tourism, trophy hunts, and for use in traditional medicine. For years, critics ...