Disney’s got a certified summer blockbuster with the remake of “The Lion King”: It’s made almost half a billion dollars at the box office in only a couple weeks. And one real-life lion cub had a hand ...

If you think baby Simba in the remake of The Lion King is cute, wait until you see the Texas lion cub Disney looked to in order to bring him to life. Though the heir to the animal kingdom resides in ...

Oftentimes our furry friends can remind us of some of our favorite animal characters from books, TV shows and movies. A baby lion cub at the Cougar Mountain Zoo in Washington is a great example. This ...

The fine folks at Disney just gave us a last-minute holiday surprise by releasing the first trailer for their hotly anticipated “live-action” remake of the 1994 animated classic, The Lion King. The ...

The Dallas Zoo sent Disney footage of their month-old lion cub "for motion and behavior references when designing Simba" Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...