Barbary lions were a population of the lion subspecies ... After the Romans, the Arab empire forced the animals into a smaller habitat range. In the 19th century, the arrival of European hunters ...

Genetic testing on the skulls revealed that they were pure-bred Barbary lions, Panthera leo leo. For centuries, the Tower of London was home to a royal menagerie of exotic animals, from polar bears to ...

Barbary lions, also referred to as Atlas lions ... some of which had become deeply embedded in the animal's brain." "We were working in the dark really," Shamir told The Telegraph.