The Barbary lion was the northernmost subspecies of the African lion. Its range spanned ... shadow their majestic ancestors that once called North Africa home.

This is the oldest skull of a Barbary lion found in the UK. The lion was part of the royal zoo in the Tower of London 700 years ago. Workmen digging in the old moat around the Tower of London in 1937 ...

Native to East Africa, known for its distinctive mane and a slightly different body structure A rare genetic mutation leads ...

Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus, are one of 25 species of macaque found around the world. They’re the only macaque species living outside Asia and the only non-human primate in north Africa and ...

The Barbary macaque is a monkey of many distinctions. It is the only primate, other than humans, north of the Sahara on the African continent, and it’s the only macaque living outside of Asia.

This is the full text of the chain email received by PolitiFact about the Barbary pirates and Islam ... the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic. They attacked every ship in ...

A zookeeper was mauled to death by a lion while taking people to see him feed it after his wildlife park had closed, according to officials. Babaji Daule, a 35-year-old trained lion handler ...

Tunisian politician Ayachi Zammel, a candidate in the north African country’s October 6 presidential election, has been jailed for 12 years, his lawyer said on Tuesday.“The court in Tunis ...

African Americans in the North lived in a strange state of semi-freedom. The North may had emancipated its slaves, but it was not ready to treat the blacks as citizens. . . or sometimes even as ...

Voters chose from a list of African-inspired names, referencing the species of the cubs (African lion), and Jasiri and Azizi maintained the lead for the entire two-week period. The playful and ...

The original Barbary Coast bar is inspired by the San Francisco district of the same name back in the mid-1800s, where miners flocked in during the gold rush. This gave rise to two bars that ...