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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, ...

The mummified remains of two cave lion cubs were discovered in Russia, and the recently unveiled specimens may be the best examples of cave lion mummies in the world. Boris, the male cub, was found in ...

A genetic analysis of ice age cave lions shows this species to be distinct from modern lions, ending a long-standing mystery. What’s more, the new evidence suggests these fearsome creatures diverged ...

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, ...

Neanderthal hunters living 48,000 years ago in what is now Germany killed a large cave lion in what might be the earliest example of lion hunting yet known, according to a recent paper published in ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

A Russian man hunting for mammoth tusks in Eastern Siberia made an unexpected discovery in September: the incredibly furry, slightly squished mummy of a cat from the last ice age. Scientists are ...