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 ...

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 ...

They concluded that the Barbary lion died out in Morocco in 1948 and went extinct in Algeria 10 years later. The last sighting could be traced back to 1956 in a forested region in Algeria.

One of his titles as Ethiopia's emperor was Conquering Lion of the Tribe ... father of King Henry II of England when he was knighted in 1128. Barbary Lions were kept at the Tower of London from ...