A baby liger celebrated turning 100 days old in central China on September 15. Jing Jing was born on April 26, one of three cubs, to a female liger and a male tiger — the first of its kind in the ...

Zookeepers and biologists at Novosibirsk Zoo in Siberia believe they have produced a taxonomic first. They have shared images of a "liliger," called Kiara, whose birth earlier this month raises a ...

September 20, 2013, Shenzhen, China – 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 ...

Where can you find a bear playing with a tiger, a lion confiscated from a drug dealer, a monkey named Elvis and more than a thousand other animals? All of them call Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary home.

Tigers and their relatives have hit on the right combination of genes to make them successful hunters, scientists have learned from studying the DNA of some of the biggest big cats. Along with teasing ...

Scientists have unraveled the first whole genome of a nine-year-old male Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), and compared it with the genomes of other big cats including the white Bengal tiger, ...

In this weekly series, Life's Little Mysteries provides expert answers to challenging questions. This ultimate cat fight has happened more times than you might expect. The Romans pitted African lions ...