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 ...
A baby from Dewitt who's about to turn one-year-old had a special helmet removed in November after being diagnosed with a condition known as plagiocephaly ...
This lion became extinct over 13,000 years ago during the Pleistocene period. When the lion skull fossil was first found, some scientists regarded the species as a subspecies of modern lions and ...
The London museum recalled that in 1937, workmen digging in the old moat near the Tower of London found two «well-preserved lion skulls». Museum scientists found out that, indeed, one of the ...
It was then that she diagnosed the lion as suffering from "damage to the posterior portion of his skull, which applied pressure on his cerebellum and the upper sector of the spinal cord." ...
On December 17th and 18th, Sarah Grimes, Stranding Coordinator at the Noyo Center for Marine Science, gave her annual report ...
Thylacoleo carnifex is commonly referred to as a marsupial lion, largely because of the cat-like nature of its skull and its carnivorous habits. Weighing around 120 kg, the largest mammalian ...