Barbary lions lived in Mediterranean forests, grasslands, and shrublands throughout their geographic range. It lived with other animals that are now also considered extinct, such as theaurochs ...

Genetic testing on the skulls revealed that they were pure-bred Barbary lions, Panthera leo leo. For centuries, the Tower of London was home to a royal menagerie of exotic animals, from polar bears to ...

This story appears in the November 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Barbary macaque is a monkey of many distinctions. It is the only primate, other than humans, north of the Sahara ...