This week, a string of archaeological studies lend insight into Roman gladiators, an ancient crocodile-like beast, and a prehistoric bird nearly lost to time.

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It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

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A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

The first skeletal evidence of a gladiator show or execution involving an exotic animal comes from a Roman British man with bite marks from a lion.