There have been recent reports of lions reaching, or even exceeding, our Dublin giant’s size ... eliminated the lion, leading to its recorded weight. Hercules the Liger, although not a pure ...

I knew running would only make it worse. I had no weapon. I thought, 'Wow, I guess this is how it ends, I'm only 31.' ...

Grizzly and black bears remind humans that we are not at the top of the food chain in Alaska. Ancient Alaskans shared the ...

The results are oddities like giant ligers (lion-tiger hybrids) and tiny pumapards (puma-leopard hybrids). Conservation ...

Deb: What's a liger? Napoleon Dynamite: It's pretty much my favourite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed, bred for its skills in magic. While not entirely accurate, Napoleon's take on the ...

Restoration of a landmark lion figure on a hillside has been completed using 800 tonnes of unwanted chalk from beneath a local resident's house. The giant 147m-long (483ft) lion near Whipsnade Zoo ...

A new species of giant mammal has been identified after researchers ... The species, dubbed "Simbakubwa kutokaafrika" meaning "big African lion" in Swahili, roamed east Africa about 20 millions ...

These giant pinnipeds hunt fish, squid, octopus and, rarely, smaller seals. They are found off northern Pacific coasts from Japan to California. Steller sea lion breeding is one of nature's great ...

A liger — which is a "ligre" in Spanish — is a hybrid offspring of a male lion and a tigress, a female tiger. A tigon is the offspring of a male tiger and a lioness. Historically, ligers only ...

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Yet when they are brought together artificially, they can interbreed. Such hybrids are called tions and ligers. Do they challenge the definition of species? Not really. The key words are ...

GIANT Brisbane Lions draftee Eric Hipwood will make his debut against West Coast on Saturday. Lions coach Justin Leppitsch told the playing group on Tuesday morning and the club released the news that ...