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March 09, 2006

Tiger Face, India, 1997

Photograph by Michael K. Nichols

Now an endangered species, tigers have a long history. Generally believed to have evolved in southern China more than a million years ago, the big cats eventually spread west to the Caspian Sea, north to Siberia, and south across Indonesia.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Making Room for Wild Tigers," December 1997, National Geographic magazine)