A team of Bulgarian researchers has made an exceptional discovery in a Copper Age necropolis: the remains of a young man who ...

A young man in Bulgaria was left with horrific injuries to his head and limbs after he was mauled by a lion 6,000 years ago.

The animal history documentary series Prehistoric Planet returns today on Apple TV with a new Ice Age installment. If ...

Cave bears smash lion skulls, saber-cats starve in silence, and the ice begins to melt. Five episodes of jaw-dropping beauty later, the series leaves you staring at the brutal question about climate ...

Australia once had a lion—but not the kind you’re thinking of. Thylacoleo was a razor-toothed, muscle-packed marsupial predator unlike anything alive today. In this video, we explore the fossil ...

From woolly mammoths to giant sloths, via some lesser-known ice-age beasts like 'killer koalas', the visuals in this ...

Scientists have recovered the remains of two extinct lion cubs from the permafrost of Siberia. The pair of infants, nicknamed Uyan and Dina, were estimated to be just a week or two old when they died ...

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The marsupial lion, which vanished around 40,000 years ago, was a muscular ambush predator about the size of a modern lion.