A California couple told plain-clothed officers they were smuggling a sea turtle skull, hunted mountain lion and their family ...

New skull may help solve extinction riddle The discovery also prompted Sallam Lab scientists to re-visit the findings on a separate lion-sized Hyaenodont species discovered more than 120 years ago.

This is the oldest skull of a Barbary lion found in the UK. The lion was part of the royal zoo in the Tower of London 700 years ago. Workmen digging in the old moat around the Tower of London in 1937 ...

They pulled out the skull that authorities said they had secreted ... species that is illegal to possess and transport. A mountain lion was reported in a Camarillo backyard hanging out under ...

This lion became extinct over 13,000 years ago during the Pleistocene period. When the lion skull fossil was first found, some scientists regarded the species as a subspecies of modern lions and ...

Specifically, how they had once illegally hunted a mountain lion, and how they were smuggling the skull of an endangered turtle in their carry-on bag. Those passengers turned out to be wildlife ...

Explore 12 highlights from our Treasures Gallery spanning 4.5 billion years of Earth’s history. A royal lion skull, a Moon rock, a famous gorilla, even Darwin’s pigeons: uncover some of the most ...

The CDFW announced Tuesday it settled cases against Byron Lee Fitzpatrick, 24, and Shannon Lee Price, 28, after investigators seized the sea turtle skull, parts of a mountain lion and barn owl ...