Cave lions, larger than today's African lions, once dominated Ice Age Europe's mammoth steppes. These formidable predators, ...

A quarter larger than today's lions, the European cave lion was one of the biggest cats around 12,000 years ago. Now, an unusually sophisticated analysis of its bones is revealing what these ...

Ancient humans hunted and butchered a cave lion around 48,000 years ago, a study of the prehistoric big cat skeleton has found. The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, describes ...

Neanderthals skillfully hunted giant cave lions, a study showed for the first time. The findings suggest the animals were carefully pelted, maybe for some kind of ritualistic purpose. It adds to a ...

One of the most prolific, the cave lion, roamed from Spain all the way through Eurasia and into modern-day Alaska and the Yukon and was widely depicted in prehistoric cave art.

This Ancient ‘Lion Cavern’ Mine Is the Origin of the Stone Age's Favorite Color. ... which was key to giving cave paintings, body art, and personal ornaments a richness in color.

Analyzing Ancient Cave Lion Fossils. Scientists excavated the well-preserved bones from oxygen-starved sediments that bordered a small lake near Siegsdorf, Germany. The team used radiocarbon dating to ...

The animals that plummeted 85 feet into Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave provide a layered history of life dating back to the ...

Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ...

From about 2.5 million to 11,700 years ago, big cats like the cave lion roamed all corners of the globe. Much like early humans, early lions migrated out of Africa to neighboring Asia and Europe ...

Researchers have discovered hundreds of prehistoric animal bones—including the remains of a cave lion and a mammoth—at a cave in Poland. The so-called Paradise Cave (Jaskinia Raj), located in ...

“Bones of American lions in an archaeological site at Jaguar Cave, Idaho, suggest that (ancient people) may have hunted or eaten them about 10,300 years ago.” ...