Animals occasionally mate with members of another species, and nature occasionally endorses the match with a hybrid. Humans have taken advantage of hybridization to create striking oddities for ...

A baby liger celebrated turning 100 days old in central China on September 15. Jing Jing was born on April 26, one of three cubs, to a female liger and a male tiger — the first of its kind in the ...

Behold Hercules the mighty liger – 900 pounds of big cat that’s part lion, part tiger and all humongous. This King Kong of cats is not the work of a mad scientist, but the product of a rarely seen ...

You may have heard of a liger—the lion-tiger hybrid is, after all, Napoleon Dynamite's favorite animal—but now a Russian zoo has released photos of a so-called "liliger" named Kiara, the offspring of ...

Two "liger" cubs — the offspring of a Bengal tiger mother, Beauty, and African lion father, Simba — were born at a private Taiwan zoo last week. (See a liger.) Intentionally crossbreeding the animals ...

For more on big cats, tune in to Big Cat Week, premiering Monday, Feb. 20, at 9/8c on Nat Geo WILD and learn more about the National Geographic Big Cats Initiative, a global initiative that supports ...

Lots of domestic animals are crossbred to make new breeds. Among dogs, for instance, a Siberian retriever is a cross between a Siberian husky and a Labrador retriever, while a cockapoo is a cocker ...