In a remote cave in the Gard region of southern France, a team of spelunkers made an astonishing discovery—a 16,000-year-old ...

Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...

A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat between a human and a large cat, ...

A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks to bite marks found on a skeleton in a gladiator cemetery. This adds a ...

Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...

A team of archaeologists has found what they claim to be the skeleton of a gladiator who was bitten by a big cat — the first ...

Bite marks discovered on an ancient Roman skeleton in the UK have been hailed as the first ever physical evidence of ...

Sadly, it appears the wound never healed - and is likely to have been the cause of his death, experts said. The skeleton was excavated from one of the best-preserved gladiator graveyards in the ...

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

Schinderhannes’ skeleton has since been removed from the Anatomical Collection of Heidelberg University for conservation purposes, but spectators can still view a replica. Even in death ...