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 ...

Messing with a cave lion could well have been a Stone Age hunter’s last act. At up to 880 pounds, these Pleistocene predators were some of the biggest cats that ever lived. But now scientists say ...

Ancient humans hunted and butchered a cave lion around 48,000 years ago, a study of the prehistoric big cat skeleton has found. The findings represent the "earliest direct evidence of a large predator ...

Thirty-thousand years ago, different types of lions prowled the globe, hunting prey on four continents. One of the most prolific, the cave lion, roamed from Spain all the way through Eurasia and into ...