Cave art of a lion with a luscious mane drawn deep in a Puerto Rican cave about 500 years ago might have been created by an enslaved African, new research suggests. "We have an image that looks ...

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 ...

This week, meet a pair of ancient cave lion cubs that are practically intact, learn what happened on Mars, meet some socially complex giraffes, explore the secrets of shipwrecks and more.

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 ...

This CAVE LION cub is arguably the best preserved #iceage animal ever found! It's name is Sparta. In a paper published today with colleagues from & , we use DNA & 14C to show that it's a female ...

This cave drawing of what looks like a lion was made around A.D. 1500. Researchers think it may have been made by an African who was taken as a slave to the Americas. (Image credit: A. Acosta-Colón) ...