The latest care package hailing to us through deep time is a pair of extinct cave lion cubs found in the Sakha Republic of Yakutia. Believed to be at least 10,000 years old, the Siberian lions ...

They also examined recently discovered cave lion claw bones showing evidence of having been skinned around 190,000 years ago. Now extinct, cave lions were apex predators, larger than today's ...

The cave lion remains from Siegsdorf are displayed alongside a reproduction of a wooden spear similar to those used by Neanderthals. (Image credit: Volker Minkus. ©NLD) ...

For about 20,000 years, cave lions were the most dangerous animals in Eurasia, with a shoulder height of about 4.2 feet high. They lived in multiple environments and hunted large herbivores ...

These incredibly well-preserved remains will allow researchers to study the cubs' DNA, revealing more about the unique features of extinct cave lions.

Humans Hunted and Butchered a Cave Lion 48,000 Years Ago, Skeleton Suggests Published Oct 12, 2023 at 11:00 AM EDT Updated Oct 18, 2023 at 2:23 PM EDT By Aristos Georgiou ...

Cave lions (Panthera spelaea) are now extinct, but they inhabited most of northern Eurasia during the Pleistocene, recently enough that some preserved cave lions look like they’re just sleeping.

Extinct cave lion cubs discovered in Siberia after 12,000 years on ice Published: Nov. 18, 2015, 3:14 p.m.

The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports, looked at two sets of remains from cave lions, which were large cats that roamed Eurasia before going extinct more than 10,000 ...

While cave lions eventually went extinct around 14,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, it goes to show how the strength and majesty of these powerful creatures have captivated ...

Salis identified this as the oldest-known American lion. About 63,000 years ago, Salis says, a second wave of cave lions crossed into eastern Beringia—now Alaska and Yukon.

The skull of a cave lion found near Siegsdorf in the Bavarian Alps in 1985, estimated to be about 48,000 years old. A new analysis indicates that the animal was killed and butchered by Neanderthals.