An extinct species of lion once interbred with its modern cousins, suggests a new study. Analysis of multiple genomes from the extinct cave lion has revealed that it represented a "highly distinct" ...

The fortuitous bounty of cyclic glacial thaws is perhaps most stunningly revealed to us in the occasional cache of well-preserved ice age mega-fauna. The latest care package hailing through deep time ...

A new study on multiple genomes from the extinct cave lion has discovered that it represented a highly distinct evolutionary lineage, which separated from modern lions more than a million years ago.

The cave lion was one of the biggest cats to ever live, prowling a huge swathe of territory from Western Europe across Siberia and into North America and hunting large prey - and perhaps even people - ...

Scientists have recovered the remains of two extinct lion cubs from the permafrost of Siberia. The pair of infants, nicknamed Uyan and Dina, were estimated to be just a week or two old when they died ...

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 ...