The extinct Barbary lion population of the lion ... Strangely enough, Eurasian cave lions raided European caves for bear-sized prey, and some individuals of this lion species were discovered ...

The European cave lion (Panthera spelaea), also known as the Eurasian cave lion and steppe lion was an ancient lion belonging to the extinct Panthera genus. This lion became extinct over 13,000 ...

"Caves are good places to preserve bones, and cave bears had the good sense to die there," Bocherens says. Along with mammoths, lions and woolly rhinos, cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) were once among ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Two Ice Age cave lion cubs were found frozen in permafrost this past summer. Now researchers are attempting to clone them. Produced by Matt Stuart. Video courtesy AP.

The other lived between 1280 and 1385, making it the oldest lion found in the UK since the extinction of wild cave lions during the last ice age ... But they were declared extinct in the wild in 1922, ...