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 ...

It had enormous paws and black ears with black tips. Strangely enough, Eurasian cave lions raided European caves for bear-sized prey, and some individuals of this lion species were discovered there.

TASS/. Researchers in the Department of Mammoth Fauna Studies at the Yakutian Academy of Sciences in Yakutsk, Russia's Siberia, are looking at bringing extinct cave lions back to life. The press ...

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.

We hunted to survive then, and some of us carry on the hunting and fishing tradition, 24,000 years later. Long live the ...

This story appears in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. This is where the cave lions are. And the woolly rhinos, mammoths, and bison, a menagerie of ancient creatures ...

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. Genetic testing on the skulls revealed that they were ...