The range of the Barbary lion once stretched from the shores of Morocco to the Red Sea in Egypt, but today they are all gone thanks to one species.

Morocco are eyeing a place in the final on Sunday (Picture: Jose Breton/Pics Action/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The Atlas Lion – also referred to as the Barbary Lion – was native to North ...

The Atlas Lion, otherwise known as the barbary lion, was native to North Africa and prowled the Atlas Mountains which are found in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.

Barbary lions originally roamed northern Africa, from Morocco to Egypt. But they were declared extinct in the wild in 1922, after centuries of over-exploitation and habitat destruction by humans. Some ...

Their natural habitat has been destroyed and the last remaining wild one was shot in Morocco in 1942. ... But a worldwide breeding is trying to save the Barbary Lion from extinction.

The Barbary lion which once roamed in North Africa freely is now extinct in the wild. It was one of the largest subspecies of lions, with a dark, heavy mane darker than other lions.

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 ...

The Atlas Lion, otherwise known as the barbary lion, was native to North Africa and prowled the Atlas Mountains which are found in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.