For more than 30,000 years, northern Russia's cold permafrost has preserved the small bodies of two furry and wide-pawed cave lion cubs, one of them in almost pristine condition, a new study found ...

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

SALT LAKE CITY — For more than 30,000 years, northern Russia’s cold permafrost has preserved the small bodies of two furry and wide-pawed cave lion cubs, one of them in almost pristine ...

The face of a 10,000-year-old cave lion cub: Two incredibly well-preserved prehistoric babies discovered in Siberian permafrost. Discovery was made in Sakha Republic or Yakutia, Siberia, in the ...

Two well–preserved cave lion cubs, complete with fur, ears, and whiskers, were unveiled Tuesday in Russia. They were discovered in a Siberian ice sheet in Yakutia this past summer, marking the ...

Surprisingly, though, cave lions and ancestors of today’s African lions didn’t interbreed, the genetic analysis reveals. That’s odd because most big cats are known to occasionally mate when ...

Neanderthals cooked crab and created art, but they also could have haunted cave lions and used their skins. Some 48,000 year-old puncture wounds on a cave lion’s ribcage suggest that the big cat ...

First direct evidence of lion hunting and the early use of a lion pelt by Neanderthals. Scientific Reports . Published October 12, 2023. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-42764-0.

Neanderthals sometimes hunted now-extinct big cats called cave lions, which were larger than modern lions. The finding is some of the earliest evidence of ancient humans killing top predators, as ...

More than 30,000 years ago, a pair of 1-week-old cave lions suckled a meal of milk and then died hours later when their den collapsed. Scientists found the frozen mummies of the squished cubs.