Picture the frozen winds of the Ice Age tearing across vast, wild plains. Imagine two giants—one with fangs like daggers, the ...

The only other lion species known to occur in Europe—the cave lion, sometimes classified as Panthera leo spelaea—died out some 6,000 years before the animals unearthed in Southeastern Europe.

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 is revealing what these ...

Cave lions lived in what is now Italy around 660,000 to 610,000 years ago. ... It is the oldest evidence to date of the now extinct big cat in southern Europe. advertisement. Phys.org.

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.

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.

The Lion Man was probably based on observation of European cave lions, which, although now extinct, were plentiful during the Ice Age, when they were, says Cook, “the top predator”.

Surprisingly, though, cave lions and ancestors of today’s African lions didn’t interbreed, the genetic analysis reveals. That’s odd because most big cats are known to occasionally mate when ...

The cave bear (scientific name Ursus spelaeus) was one of the charismatic inhabitants of Ice Age Europe alongside animals like the cave lion, woolly rhino, woolly mammoth and steppe bison.

Cave lions and their larger relatives, American lions, first entered North America during the last ice age, toward the end of the Pleistocene. Already part of the landscape in Europe, ...