Archaeologists recently discovered proof of a gladiatorial fight with ... Analyzing the man's wound, researchers found that the bite mark was made by a big cat, most likely a lion.

Legends of young heroes fighting ... divots in the man’s pelvis were the work of a carnivore. But delving into the precise culprit showed the markings “were likely made by a lion, which ...

Roman texts and artworks are full of depictions of gladiators, the men who fought each other or wild animals to entertain large audiences in amphitheaters. However, because the Romans cremated their ...

As a fight to the death reached its end around 1,800 years ago, a victorious lion sank its teeth into a young man’s thigh bone. Those feline bite marks, preserved on a skeleton interred in ...