The dentist who paid $50,000 to shoot, shoot again, and then skin and decapitate a 13-year-old African lion named Cecil will not be charged in Zimbabwe after all.

A Danish zoo—not the one that killed a young giraffe and fed it to the lions as a form of population control, but a different Danish zoo—has announced that it will thaw and dissect a young female lion that has been kept in a freezer since it was put down nine months ago to avoid inbreeding.

In the wake of widespread outrage over the killing of Cecil the lion, Delta Air Lines announced today it would no longer ship lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros or buffalo trophies as freight.

The most hated dentist in America—no small feat, I assure you—has spoken. Sadly, it seems Dr. Walter James Palmer is under the impression that “ignorance of the law” is a viable defense to allegedly illegally hunting Zimbabwe’s most beloved lion.

According to the Journal Sentinel, some kind of “lion-like” animal is prowling the streets of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has been since last week. It hasn’t eaten anybody yet, as far as we know, but on Thursday somebody panicked and shot a dog. Reuters reports that the dog is going to be okay.

A rescue worker in the Tbilisi flood zones was dramatically mauled by a tiger in front of several of his co-workers—just a day after the Georgian government assured residents that all the escaped zoo animals had been located.

The American tourist mauled to death by a lion Monday in South Africa has been identified as Katherine Chappell, a 29-year-old who worked as a visual effects editor on Game of Thrones.

Following the rules for the entirety of your lifetime can get tiring. But if there’s anywhere on Earth where you should definitely swallow your pride and just follow the rules it’s a tourist park where lions roam free. If not, one might leap through your car window and murder you.

In today's edition of why'd you do that?, a woman at the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee has been officially banned from returning after foolishly climbing into the lion enclosure to feed the animals cookies. Do lions even like cookies?

Thirteen years ago, a lion, tiger, and bear were rescued from the basement of an Atlanta drug dealer's home. Now living in Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary, the three are now the biggest BFFs in the animal kingdom.

The Danish zoo that caused a worldwide outcry by killing and publicly dissecting Marius the Giraffe announced it has euthanized four lions: Two adults and their two cubs.

If you're a fun girl of drinking age who lives in the D.C. area, why not go to a stranger's wedding with a guy off Craigslist? He seems "all right," what with his picture of him riding a lion that is riding a horse, and his degree and good career. He actually kind of sounds like a "catch," plus this wedding is Open Bar.

One day after a woman was fatally attacked by lions while having sex with her boyfriend, another young woman was killed by a lion in an animal sanctuary in California. The woman, a 26-year-old volunteer intern at the Project Survival's Cat Haven in Dunlap, California, somehow found herself inside the enclosure for an 350-pound adult lion named Cous Cous, who CNN described as sort of a "celebrity cat."

A woman and her boyfriend were attacked by as many as seven lions while they were having sex "in a bushy area" near the Zimbabwean town of Kariba, the Harare Herald reported today.

An Essex woman is claiming her cat "Teddy Bear" is the slightly-larger-than-normal housecat everyone mistook for a lion.

The residents of an English seaside town were advised by police to stay indoors on Sunday, after officers received word that a lion or maybe just a cat was spotted in a field.

Marian Thompson, the widow of an exotic pet enthusiast who unleashed 56 dangerous animals into Zanesville, Ohio before committing suicide, wants her leopards back.

As many as 48 "mature, very big, agressive" exotic animals—including lions, cheetahs, tigers, apes, wolves and bears—have escaped from a Ohio farm whose owner was found dead earlier today. On the bright side, school's been cancelled tomorrow!

How could you possibly improve the story of two 19-year-old women falling in love and going on a summer-long crime spree? What if I told you a lion was involved?

Planning a safari anytime soon? If so, you might want to check out the results of a new study in the journal Public Library of Science ONE before you go. The extensive research shows that African lions are far more likely to eat you after dusk on the day following a full moon. Or, in more scientific terms, lions are more successful at "carcass acquisition" just after a full moon: