A good way to start an argument among biologists is to ask them what seems a simple question: "What is a species?" To evolutionary theorists, a species is a fundamental unit, and transitions between ...

For more on big cats, tune in to Big Cat Week, premiering Monday, Feb. 20, at 9/8c on Nat Geo WILD and learn more about the National Geographic Big Cats Initiative, a global initiative that supports ...

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 ...

Napoleon Dynamite would be so relieved. The massive feline on the loose in the Simi Valley veld was not a liger. It was a tiger, now a very dead tiger. The mystery ended Wednesday morning, when the ...

Seven-year-old Allen has a problem many of us face: He would like to be half-man, half-cheetah, but he doesn't know where to begin. Does the technology exist to give him the spots, speed, adorable ...

A lioness in China has given birth to two mixed lion-tiger cubs and a pure-bred lion cub in the same litter. Chinese broadcasters CCTV reported the births were the first in the world. The lioness, ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Tyler the tigon was terribly rare. A big cat like him isn't found everywhere.

What was your special interest or passion when you were little? For me, it was baseball. I taught myself to read at age four by trying to decipher the box scores in the daily newspaper. I loved the ...