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A shot placement diagram demonstrating the angle that a wooden spear likely struck the ancient cave lion. A 48,000-year-old lion skeleton found in a cave in modern-day Germany has provided researchers ...

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From about 2.5 million to 11,700 years ago, big cats like the cave lion roamed all corners of the globe. Much like early humans, early lions migrated out of Africa to neighboring Asia and Europe, ...

Marks on the ribcage of a 48,000-year-old cave lion skeleton suggest the animal was killed by Neanderthals, making it the first evidence that our nearest human cousins hunted the Ice Age predators. A ...

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 ...

Ancient humans hunted and butchered a cave lion around 48,000 years ago, a study of the prehistoric big cat skeleton has found. The findings represent the "earliest direct evidence of a large predator ...

The cave lion skeleton from Siegsdorf in Germany with a replica of a wooden spear that may have been used to kill it. The authors theorize that Neanderthals may have stabbed the lion while it was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cave lion remains from Siegsdorf, Germany are displayed alongside a reproduction of a wooden spear similar to those used by ...