There aren't any native lion or tiger populations living in Japan today, but this was not always the case. Fossil evidence indicates that at least one species of large cat roamed the archipelago ...

A new study on multiple genomes from the extinct cave lion has discovered that it represented a highly distinct evolutionary lineage, which separated from modern lions more than a million years ago.

Fossils uncovered in Japan, thought to be from the archipelago's lost tiger population, have now been revealed to be of an ancient species of lion. While there are no native lion or tiger populations ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have uncovered the remains of a young man from the Copper Age who survived being attacked by a lion about 6,000 years ago. According to a study published in the Journal of ...

Image of the frozen cave lion cub named Sparta, which has been radiocarbon dated to ca 32,000 years before present and genetically identified as a female. Sparta was found in 2018 in Belaya Gora, near ...