An international team led by South Korea's Personal Genomics Institute and BGI unraveled the first whole genome of a 9-year-old male Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), and compared it with the ...

Have you ever wondered what makes a big cat a big cat? How about which one of these fierce felines is the biggest of them all ...

The biggest and perhaps most fearsome of the world's big cats, the tiger shares 95.6 percent of its DNA with humans' cute and furry companions, domestic cats. That's one of the findings from the newly ...

The lion and the Sunda clouded leopard are the big cat species most at risk. — -- The lion and the Sunda clouded leopard are facing the same threats that led to the extinction of several big cats ...

State wildlife officers will escort a transport carrying former Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus animals from Poinsett County to Memphis International Airport today after deputies found lions ...

If you placed a tiger next to a lion, it would be ridiculously easy to say which was which. If you placed their skeletons next to each other, the task would be far more difficult. Stripped of their ...

For the first time since three lion cubs were born in November, Blank Park Zoo is introducing new animals. The Blank Park Zoo announced that they have four new animals, three from endangered species ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Weeks after a tiger at the Bronx Zoo tested positive for COVID-19, officials have announced that four more tigers and three lions have also tested positive for the disease.