By Andrew Curry, ScienceNOW 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 ...

Painting of a cave lion by Heinrich Harder (Public Domain, Image via Wikimedia Commons) From about 370,000 to 10,000 years ago, the European cave lions existed throughout Russia and Europe.

A famous prehistoric cave site in Belgium has yielded the oldest multifunctional tool of its kind. This Ice Age “Swiss Army ...

The team also analyzed cave lion claw bones they discovered in the Einhornhöhle Cave in Germany in 2019 that are at least 190,000 years old, based on the layer of sediment in which they were found.

Cave lions in Europe are now extinct but once roamed throughout Europe and to Alaska until the land bridge closed 10,000 years ago. As an adult it would have measured up to 3ft 9 inches tall and ...

The saber-toothed tiger and the cave lion were both legends in their time, haunting the dreams of early humans and shaping the fate of entire ecosystems.

Cave lions lived across Europe and Asia until their extinction around 10,000 years ago. These two specimens are particularly important due to their well-preserved state.

If it's a cave lion, the size suggests the little cub was probably between 1.5 months and 2 months old when it died, "probably due to collapse of the den," Protopov said, noting that "the mummy ...

Archaeologists long assumed that the only lions on the continent were mythical. Then they started finding bones.