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Barbary Lions Once Inhabited Northern Africa's Mountains And Deserts, But The Spread Of Firearms And Bounties For Shooting Lions Led To The Extinction Of This Species
By the 1920s, scientists believed they were extinct. But, according to a new study published in PLOS One, Barbary lions may have stayed alive and hidden from humans in the wilderness of Algeria ...
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4 Extinct Types of Lions (1 Has Been Gone for 12,000 Years)
Today, the number of lions fell by 42% between 1993 and 2014, and according to the most recent IUCN assessment, the adult population ranges from only 23,000 to 39,000. The extinct Barbary lion ...
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Barbary lion skull from London
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 ...
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Here's the story behind a striking image of a lion getting a CAT scan
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 ...