“Our findings challenge the prevailing view that tigers once took refuge in Japan and that cave lion distribution was limited ...

While there are no native lion or tiger populations in Japan today, this was not always the case. Fossils indicate that at ...

There aren't any native lion or tiger populations living in Japan today, but this was not always the case. Fossil evidence indicates that at least one species of large cat roamed the archipelago ...

Study says lions reached Japan between 73,000 and 38,000 years ago when lower sea levels connected it to Eurasia - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Lions lived in a wide area of the Japanese archipelago tens of thousands of years ago, as analysis of fossil specimens that ...

Neanderthals living in what is now Belgium made a kind of prehistoric Swiss Army Knife from the bones of a cave lion some 130,000 years ago. Found in the hugely significant Scladina Cave – which once ...

Neanderthal hunters living 48,000 years ago in what is now Germany killed a large cave lion in what might be the earliest example of lion hunting yet known, according to a recent paper published in ...

The bone is around 130,000 years old, and was discovered in Belgium. More recently,a team conducting ongoing excavations at Scaldina Cave archeological trove in central Belgium found an animal bone ...

During the last ice age, the Earth was home to significantly more megafauna -- animals with adult body weights over 100 pounds -- than it is today. The Woolly Mammoth is one of the best-known examples ...