Slightly smaller than their African lion cousins, adult male Asiatic lions weigh between 350 and 420 pounds, while females range between 240 and 260 pounds, according to World Wildlife Fund India.

Five-year-old Pulsing Ajnera was playing with his brothers in a field near their home in the western Indian state of Gujarat, when a lion “came out of nowhere,” his grieving father told CNN.

Asiatic lions are a critically endangered species. Unlike their African counterparts, Asiatic lions are slightly smaller in ...

The African-Asian hybrid lion problem was first recognised in the US. In the mid-1980s, a team of scientists led by Stephen ?Brien began to conduct genetic studies on what were believed to be Asiatic ...

Courting Asiatic lions in Gir. Source: Stotra Chakrabarti, Asiatic Lion Project of the Wildlife Institute of India. African lions seem to exemplify the conflict between genders. A coalition of ...

Lions are called the King of the Jungle. They are strong wild animals that live in groups called prides. Most lions live in ...

Though they can be confused for their southern relatives, the west African lion, or Panthera leo, is more genetically similar to the Asiatic species in India, The Guardian said. The big cats are ...

The mighty African lion that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed as threatened and endangered on Monday goes by many names — the king of the beasts, Leo of the zodiac, so royal that that ...

Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav celebrates the rise in Asiatic lion population in Gujarat on World Lion Day 2025.

A July 30 forest department notification announcing renaming of the 'Lion Project' in MP's Kuno National Park to 'Cheetah ...