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.

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

The lion may be considered the king of the jungle, but that doesn’t mean that this predator is invincible. Lions go after ...

Blood, sand, and death – for Romans, there was no better entertainment than watching gladiators fight exotic animals in ...

A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains ...

Bite marks on a 1,800-year-old skeleton from Roman Britain suggest that a gladiator was mauled to death by a large cat, ...