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

In the cool stone chambers of Scladina Cave, deep in Belgium’s Meuse Valley, archaeologists have unearthed an artifact that impressed even the most seasoned anthropologists. It’s not gold or jewelry, ...

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 ...

Cave lions, or panthera spelaea, once lived across much of Eurasia before going extinct around 10,000 years ago.. Sparta, an Ice Age cave lion believed to be 28,000 years old. Courtesy / Love Dal ...

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.

It's part of a larger network of caves in the Swabian Jura. Art and other discoveries from the caves suggest they provided shelter for Ice Age humans about 33,000 to 43,000 years ago.

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 ...

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 ...

A female cave lion cub nicknamed Sparta may be the best-preserved Ice Age animal ever discovered. Sparta, who is nearly 28,000 years old, was found frozen in the permafrost of Siberia, and even ...

Scientists found this Ice Age cave lion (panthera spelaea) and another less-intact cub named Boris, estimated to be 43,448 years old, at a dig site near the Senyalyakh River in eastern Siberia ...