DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — Decatur’s Scovill Zoo welcomed two new animals on Monday. Russet and Yukon are eight-year-old mountain lion siblings who were named after potatoes — a nod to their ...

The first skeletal evidence of a gladiator show or execution involving an exotic animal comes from a Roman British man with bite marks from a lion.

Even without its signature lion, Keystone Safari is still full of pride. The safari’s oldest Barbary lion, Cash, died ...

The results challenge the long-held theory that "only animals who were vocal learners — like humans and parrots — could learn to find a beat," Hugo Merchant, a researcher at Mexico 's Institute of ...