Less-than-lissom lions have been fed on junk food in captivity, says expert.

Mummified potentate and wife were found in burial mound 42 metres in diameter, and they went to the next life alongside 9 geldings, saddled and harnessed.

Conservationists and experts due to meet over what to do with animal listed as most endangered big cat in the world.

Unveiled: two extinct cave lions  - dug from the permafrost - make their first appearance since Pleistocene times.

Biggest and 'best' in Russia, it is more like a 'reserve' than a traditional zoo.

The government of the Sakha republic in Siberia has allocated extra cash to slaughtering wolves threatening remote reindeer villages.

Police called to house after owners woken up by loud meowing.

More than 20 calves born although park keepers say there could be more.

A few years ago only 30 were living in the wild, but now there is a realistic chance to avoid extinction.