Zookeepers and biologists at Novosibirsk Zoo in Siberia believe they have produced a taxonomic first. They have shared images of a "liliger," called Kiara, whose birth earlier this month raises a ...

Over the years, the animal kingdom has given us some truly surprising hybrids, which include creatures born when two ...

A 705lb liger bred in the U.S has been compared to a prehistoric sabre-toothed tiger. The five-year-old feline, named Apollo, is the hybrid offspring of a male lion and a female tiger.

An extremely rare cross between a tiger and a lion has been born in a travelling zoo in southern Russia, one of only a few dozen of the animals believed to exist. Named Tsar, the two-month-old ...

What exactly is a liger? A cross between a male lion (Panthera leo) and female tiger (Panthera tigris). The liger is the world's largest big cat, growing up to 12 feet long and 1,200 lbs. Ligers ...

ROSTOV-ON-DON (AFP) - An extremely rare cross between a tiger and a lion has been born in a travelling zoo in southern Russia, one of only a few dozen of the animals believed to exist. Read more ...

A Liger in the Siberian Tiger Park, Harbin, China. The Liger is the hybrid of a male lion and a female tiger, and there is only a 0.1% chance that such a baby is born.

But apart from the stripes, the tiger-strain comes out strongly in the blackness of the corners of the mouth, the hairs of the lips in this place being jet black in the tiger, white in the lion.

Furthermore, the term “liger” is nearly 90 years old, giving further credit to the long-term interest in lion and tiger ...

China's first tiger-lion hybrid cub was born at Hongshan Zoo inNanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, in 2002. But itdied a week later.

THE zoo in Novosibirsk, Russia's third-largest city, is home to a unique animal - the liliger. That's a big cat breed where the father is a lion and the mother is a lion-tiger hybrid, called a liger.

Being of the same age as the lion, she was placed together with him in the same cage, and two years afterwards she proved to be in cub. Nature - Lion-tiger and Tiger-lion Hybrids Skip to main content ...