“Our findings challenge the prevailing view that tigers once took refuge in Japan and that cave lion distribution was limited ...

By Gloria Dickie The lions that roamed the plains of northern Botswana were dying. One by one, the big cats were succumbing ...

There aren't any native lion or tiger populations living in Japan today, but this was not always the case. Fossil evidence indicates that at least one species of large cat roamed the archipelago ...

Lions lived in a wide area of the Japanese archipelago tens of thousands of years ago, as analysis of fossil specimens that were beli ...