Staff photo by Matt Liparota A cast of an American lion skull on display at the Burpee Museum of Natural History, 737 N. Main St. in Rockford. The original skull is over 25,000 years old. Staff photo ...

In this undated photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Cecil the lion rests in Hwange National Park, in Hwange, Zimbabwe. His death during an illegal hunt spurred new protections ...

The fossilized tooth of an ancient American Lion has been discovered on the drying banks of the Mississippi river. The animal hasn't been seen on American soil since the last Ice Age and finds of this ...

(CN) - A Queens man who shipped the skulls of endangered lions and tigers to a wholesale buyer in Thailand was sentenced Wednesday to nine months in federal prison. Though he was nabbed after buying a ...