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A team of international scientists say they have identified a pair of extinct Ice Age lions that are among the best preserved specimens ever found. The scientists believe that the cave lion cubs, ...

Neanderthals hunted cave lions and used the skin of this dangerous carnivore, a new study has shown for the first time. Excavations at Einhornhöhle (Unicorn Cave) in the Harz Mountains (Lower Saxony, ...

Neanderthals living in what is now Belgium made a kind of prehistoric Swiss Army Knife from the bones of a cave lion some 130,000 years ago. Found in the hugely significant Scladina Cave – which once ...

The specimen (pictured) was so well-preserved in permafrost that it's whiskers are still intact. Love Dalén/Stockhom University's Centre for Palaeogenetics via Twitter The video shows scientists ...

The bone is around 130,000 years old, and was discovered in Belgium. More recently,a team conducting ongoing excavations at Scaldina Cave archeological trove in central Belgium found an animal bone ...

The long-lost 'body' of mysterious ice age animal carving was discovered in German cave, but archaeologists aren't sure if it's a cave lion or cave bear. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

The fortuitous bounty of cyclic glacial thaws is perhaps most stunningly revealed to us in the occasional cache of well-preserved ice age mega-fauna. The latest care package hailing through deep time ...

Thirty-thousand years ago, different types of lions prowled the globe, hunting prey on four continents. One of the most prolific, the cave lion, roamed from Spain all the way through Eurasia and into ...