Widely regarded as a symbol of royalty, the Barbary lion stood out from all other lions. Once found throughout the mountainous deserts of Northern Africa, this big cat tragically went extinct from ...

The extinct Barbary lion population of the lion subspecies Panthera Leo was also known as the North African lion, Berber lion, Atlas lion, and Egyptian lion. It existed in the mountains and desert ...

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 ...