An “extremely rare” 16,000-year-old canine skeleton from southern France offers evidence that Stone Age humans cared for their pets – although the animal was also probably killed by humans.

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The skeleton, likely of a man who died between the ages of 26 and 35, shows bite marks on the pelvis from a big cat, which could have been a lion, archaeologists said in a new study published in ...

Archaeologists have analysed a skeleton from a probable "gladiator graveyard" in the UK, and found bite marks from a big cat such as a lion or tiger. It's the first physical evidence of gladiator ...

Modern forensic techniques found that the teeth behind the marks probably belonged to a large feline, and the part of the skeleton that had been in the creature’s mouth further indicated it must ...

Left: A lion bite mark on the skeletal remains. Right: A marble relief depicting a human-lion gladiatorial fight. © Left: From the research paper: Unique ...

A Roman gladiator was bitten and probably killed by a lion in York, experts believe after the discovery of bite marks on a skeleton. And the human remains, found in a Roman cemetery in York ...

Bite marks on a Roman-era skeleton found in York are the first physical evidence gladiators fought animals, experts have said. Teeth imprints from a large cat were found on the pelvis of a man ...

Bite marks on the pelvis of a man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain were probably made by a lion in gladiatorial combat. The findings provide the first physical evidence that people battled ...

(CNN) — A skeleton recovered from an intriguing Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators and animals, according to new research. The ...

A suspected lion bite found on a Roman skeleton in York gives a "remarkable insight" into the city's history, a researcher said. As The Press reported, researches from the University of York ...