Nov 7, 2023 by News Staff

New research led by Texas A&M University and the University of Missouri scientists explains how cats, including domestic cats, lions, tigers, Geoffroy’s...

Oct 12, 2023 by News Staff

During the Upper Paleolithic, lions become an important theme in Paleolithic art and are more frequent in anthropogenic faunal assemblages. However, the...

Jan 4, 2022 by News Staff

Researchers from the University of Adelaide and elsewhere have sequenced and analyzed mitochondrial DNA from fossils of cave lions (Panthera spp.) and...

Jan 8, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto have found and examined the fossilized remains of two subadult and one adult...

Aug 17, 2020 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of researchers led by the Swedish Centre for Palaeogenetics has analyzed 31 mitochondrial genome sequences from the cave lion (Panthera...

Oct 7, 2019 by News Staff

The Golden ratio principle is present in the architecture and evolution of the human skull, suggests a new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins...

Nov 23, 2018 by News Staff

The cat tongue is covered in sharp, rear-facing spines called papillae, the precise function of which is a mystery. In a combined experimental and theoretical...

Dec 1, 2017 by News Staff

According to the first study to count the number of cortical neurons in the brains of a number of carnivores, dogs have about 530 million cortical neurons...

Oct 28, 2014 by News Staff

Specialists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have proposed to list the African lion (Panthera leo leo) – a symbol of majesty, courage and strength...

Apr 30, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists led by Dr Greger Larson of Durham University, UK, have for the first time compared DNA from living and extinct lions to reconstruct the historical...

Jun 15, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Scientists have found that cougars, or American mountain lions, are re-emerging in areas of the United States, reversing 100 years of decline. Cougar cubs...