In January 2017, a Russian zoo made the headlines with the birth of a liger cub named Tzar – a cute hybrid cat born to a female tiger and a male lion. The excitement generated by the news worldwide ...

Ligers may look spectacular, but conservationists and animal welfare experts have long questioned whether they should be bred at all.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A GIANT beast dubbed the world’s biggest cat is drawing comparisons with the terrifying prehistoric sabre-toothed tiger. Incredible clips of the monster-sized liger – the hybrid offspring of a lion ...

With a name like Hercules, you know he's got to be big. But at 922 pounds, big is an understatement for the world's largest living cat, according to the 2014 Guinness Book of World Records. Hercules ...