Barbary lions were widely revered for their impressive size and dark-haired manes. They were kept by royal families in northern Africa, but the Romans also loved them just as much.

The Barbary lion which once roamed in North Africa ... yet hunting and loss of habitats remain grave threats to their existence. White lions are not a subspecies but a rare genetic variation ...

This is the oldest skull of a Barbary lion found in the UK. The lion was part of the royal zoo in the Tower of London 700 years ago. Workmen digging in the old moat around the Tower of London in 1937 ...

People were intrigued, and so was I, so I dug into the back-story of how the lion ended up there. The photo, taken in 2005, depicts a then-2-year-old baby Barbary lion named Samson. Barbary lions ...