ONE of just six ultra-rare black tigers known to exist in the world has been miraculously snapped by an amateur photographer. Soumen Bajpayee took the pictures of the melanistic tiger, whose thick … ...

The black tiger is found in the jungles of the Indian state and has rarely been seen in the past. India is home to 70 per cent of the world's tiger population.

A rare black tiger on the verge of extinction has been pictured in the wild. Amateur photographer Soumen Bajpayee, 27, took images of the melanistic tiger in eastern Odisha, India. The species is only ...

Till the 1700s, these tigers were considered mythical. One of the first pieces of evidence of a black tiger was a watercolour painting by a British artist and writer named James Forbes.