Extremely rare evidence of a lion attack on a teenage boy's remains suggests the teenager survived the initial trauma but ...

The surprising discovery offers new insight into how prehistoric communities cared for people who were injured or disabled.

In a necropolis in present-day Bulgaria, archaeologists unearthed an unusual if not astonishing story ...

A shot placement diagram demonstrating the angle that a wooden spear likely struck the ancient cave lion. A 48,000-year-old lion skeleton found in a cave in modern-day Germany has provided researchers ...

Marks on the ribcage of a 48,000-year-old cave lion skeleton suggest the animal was killed by Neanderthals, making it the first evidence that our nearest human cousins hunted the Ice Age predators. A ...

Copper Age skeleton from Bulgaria shows a young man survived a lion attack 5,000 years ago, revealing early human–lion ...

In a small, well-lit space deep inside Burlington’s Soda Plant, artist Kyle Sikora settles the skull of an extinct female North American lion onto a blue, padded frame. The Conant Metal & Light ...

A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat between a human and a large cat, archaeologists said. The skeleton, likely of a man who died between the ages ...

(CN) — A skeleton found in a Roman cemetery in York offers the first physical evidence of a gladiator fighting — and dying — in combat with a lion, or large cat. The research, published Wednesday in ...