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Liolaemidae
Liolaemidae, a South American iguanian lizard family with genera Ctenoblepharys, Liolaemus, and Phymaturus; over 300 species from Peru to Tierra del Fuego, noted for rapid herbivory evolution and Andean diversification.
Lion
The lion (Panthera leo) is a large, social cat of the family Felidae that lives in prides on African savannas, with a small remnant population in India's Gir Forest.
Lion (2015 film)
Lion is a 2015 Indian Telugu-language action drama film directed by Satyadev in his debut, starring Nandamuri Balakrishna in his 98th film; music is by Mani Sharma.
Lion (2016 film)
Lion is a 2016 biographical drama directed by Garth Davis, starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman as an adopted Indian man searches for his birth family using Google Earth.
Lion (Australasian company)
Lion is an Australian alcoholic beverage company, wholly owned by Japan's Kirin Holdings since 2009, brewing XXXX, Tooheys, and Steinlager across Australia and New Zealand.
Lion (heraldry)
Lion (heraldry): the most-used animal charge in European armory since the twelfth century, in attitudes such as rampant and passant; central to the royal arms of England (three lions passant guardant Or) and to augmentations like the Lion of England.
Lion Air
Lion Air, also known as PT Lion Mentari Airlines, is an Indonesian private low-cost airline founded in Jakarta in 1999 that leads the domestic market with about 40% share.
Lion Air Flight 610
Lion Air Flight 610 was a Boeing 737 MAX 8 flight from Jakarta that crashed into the Java Sea on October 29, 2018, killing all 189 aboard.
Lion and Sun (شیر و خورشید)
The Lion and Sun (شیر و خورشید, Shir o khorshid) is a historical national emblem of Iran, on the flag from 1906 until the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Lion and Sun flag (پرچم شیر و خورشید)
Lion and Sun flag (پرچم شیر و خورشید), Iran's green-white-red tricolor bearing the lion-and-sun emblem; official national flag from the 1906 constitution until 1979, when the Islamic Republic replaced it; now a diaspora and opposition symbol.
Lion Biotechnologies (now Iovance Biotherapeutics)
Lion Biotechnologies, now Iovance Biotherapeutics, is an American biotechnology company in San Carlos, California that develops tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte cancer immunotherapies for solid tumors, including Amtagvi, FDA approved in 2024 for melanoma.
Lion Capital of Ashoka
The Lion Capital of Ashoka is the c. 250 BCE polished Chunar sandstone capital of the Sarnath pillar, with four back-to-back lions, an abacus of four animals and 24-spoked wheels, and a lost crowning wheel; it is India's State Emblem, kept at the Sarnath Museum.
Lion Complex
Lion Complex (ไลออน คอมเพล็กซ์) is a casino in Myawaddy Township, Kayin State, Myanmar, across the Moei River from Mae Sot, Thailand, opened in early 2017 by outside capital groups.
Lion Cove
Lion Cove is a high-performance CPU core microarchitecture developed by Intel as the successor to Redwood Cove, debuting in 2024 in the Lunar Lake mobile and Arrow Lake desktop processors.
Lion dance
Lion dance (狮舞, 舞狮), a Chinese performing art over 1,500 years old, has two dancers in a lion costume moving to drums, gongs, and cymbals; distinct Northern (Beijing, acrobatic) and Southern (Guangdong, kung fu) traditions, now global and heritage-listed.
Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger (1884–1958) was a German-Jewish novelist and anti-fascist exile whose historical novels, including Jud Süss (1925), made him one of the most widely translated German authors.
Lion Finance Group
Lion Finance Group PLC, formerly Bank of Georgia Group PLC, is a London-listed holding company whose main subsidiaries are Bank of Georgia and Armenia's Ameriabank.
Lion Gate
The Lion Gate, built around 1250 BCE, is the main entrance to the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae in southern Greece, named for its lion relief.
Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal
The Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal is a set of Assyrian gypsum reliefs of King Ashurbanipal hunting lions, carved for his North Palace at Nineveh around 645–635 BC.
Lion hunts of Amenhotep III
The lion hunts of Amenhotep III are recorded on commemorative Egyptian scarabs stating that the pharaoh killed 102 lions with his own arrows in his first ten years.
Lion Monument
The Lion Monument (Löwendenkmal, Lion of Lucerne) is a 9-meter rock relief in Lucerne's Glacier Garden, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and carved 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn, commemorating Swiss Guards killed defending Louis XVI on 10 August 1792.
Lion of Amphipolis (monument)
The Lion of Amphipolis is a 5.3 m seated-lion funerary monument of the late 4th century BC on the Strymon's west bank, probably honoring Alexander's admiral Laomedon; found 1912–1931, re-erected 1936–37.
Lion of Babylon (statue)
The Lion of Babylon (Arabic: أسد بابل) is a black basalt statue of a lion trampling a human figure, standing in the ancient city of Babylon, Iraq.
Lion of Chaeronea
The Lion of Chaeronea (Λέων της Χαιρώνειας) is a colossal stone lion in Boeotia, Greece, marking the grave of Thebans killed at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC.
Lion of Judah
The Lion of Judah, or Lion of the Tribe of Judah, is a biblical symbol from Genesis 49:9, later a messianic title and Ethiopian imperial style.
Lion of Knidos
The Lion of Knidos is a colossal recumbent marble lion that crowned a tomb at Knidos in Caria, south-west Anatolia, and has stood in the British Museum since 1859.
Lion of Mari
The Lion of Mari is a hammered copper lion protome found in 1937 at Mari, Syria, one of two that guarded a temple; one is in the Louvre.
Lion of the Desert (أسد الصحراء)
Lion of the Desert (أسد الصحراء), also released in Arabic as Omar Mukhtar, is Moustapha Akkad's 1981 Libyan-financed epic starring Anthony Quinn as resistance leader Omar Mukhtar against Italian colonial rule; it cost $35 million, earned under $1 million, and was long withheld from Italian theaters.
Lion of Venice
The Lion of Venice is the bronze winged lion of Saint Mark atop a column in the Piazzetta di San Marco, Venice's leading symbol since the 1260s.
Lion Storage
Lion Storage is a Dutch utility-scale battery storage developer, the energy-storage brand of parent company Return, known for Project Mufasa, a 350 MW battery park in Vlissingen financed with over €350 million in February 2025.