An extremely rare cross between a tiger and a lion has been born in a travelling zoo in southern Russia, one of only a few dozen of the animals believed to exist. Named Tsar, the two-month-old ...

What exactly is a liger? A cross between a male lion (Panthera leo) and female tiger (Panthera tigris). The liger is the world's largest big cat, growing up to 12 feet long and 1,200 lbs. Ligers ...

ROSTOV-ON-DON (AFP) - An extremely rare cross between a tiger and a lion has been born in a travelling zoo in southern Russia, one of only a few dozen of the animals believed to exist. Read more ...

But apart from the stripes, the tiger-strain comes out strongly in the blackness of the corners of the mouth, the hairs of the lips in this place being jet black in the tiger, white in the lion.

Over the years, the animal kingdom has given us some truly surprising hybrids, which include creatures born when two ...

Rare Lion-Tiger Hybrid Born In Southern Russian Zoo. Agence France-Presse; World; Jan 30, 2017 20:34 pm IST. Published On Jan 30, 2017 20:32 pm IST. Last Updated On Jan 30, 2017 20:34 pm IST.

China's first tiger-lion hybrid cub was born at Hongshan Zoo inNanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, in 2002. But itdied a week later.

A 705lb liger bred in the U.S has been compared to a prehistoric sabre-toothed tiger. The five-year-old feline, named Apollo, is the hybrid offspring of a male lion and a female tiger.

Zookeepers and biologists at Novosibirsk Zoo in Siberia believe they have produced a taxonomic first. They have shared images of a "liliger," called Kiara, whose birth earlier this month raises a ...

A Liger in the Siberian Tiger Park, Harbin, China. The Liger is the hybrid of a male lion and a female tiger, and there is only a 0.1% chance that such a baby is born.

An extremely rare cross between a tiger and a lion has been born in a travelling zoo in southern Russia, one of only a few dozen of the animals believed to exist. Named Tsar, the two-month-old ...