A tiger is already an animal that attracts attention wherever it appears. Powerful, solitary, and built for hunting, it is ...

Modern-day felines may be the ultimate mutts. Different species of cats mated with each other at several points in history, a new genetic study of felines reveals. These ancient cat hybrids may have ...

Two "liger" cubs — the offspring of a Bengal tiger mother, Beauty, and African lion father, Simba — were born at a private Taiwan zoo last week. (See a liger.) Intentionally crossbreeding the animals ...

Cat Tales resident Kimber, a liger, died Monday, according to Mike Wyche, a spokesman for Cat Tales Zoological Park. The liger, a lion and tiger mix, was popularized in the 2004 movie “Napoleon ...

Behold Hercules the mighty liger – 900 pounds of big cat that’s part lion, part tiger and all humongous. This King Kong of cats is not the work of a mad scientist, but the product of a rarely seen ...

But there are many who argue that it should not happen. Napoleon Dynamite got the parts of the liger right, but they're not bred for their "skills in magic." Those opposed to crossbreeding would claim ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

His name is fit for a king, and he's being treated like one: Tsar the liger cub, born from an extremely rare lion-tiger romance, is proving a hit for a travelling Russian zoo. Stretched out in the zoo ...

Napoleon Dynamite would be so relieved. The massive feline on the loose in the Simi Valley veld was not a liger. It was a tiger, now a very dead tiger. The mystery ended Wednesday morning, when the ...