This CAVE LION cub is arguably the best preserved #iceage animal ever found! It's name is Sparta. In a paper published today with colleagues from & , we use DNA & 14C to show that it's a female ...

Sparta, an Ice Age cave lion believed to be 28,000 years old. Courtesy / Love Dal?n. These Ice Age big cats, though closely related, were larger than their African lion relatives that still exist ...

Cave lions, larger than today's African lions, once dominated Ice Age Europe's mammoth steppes. These formidable predators, ...

A 28,000-year-old cave lion cub mummy, named Sparta, is being called the “best-preserved” animal fossil found from the Ice Age. Love Dalén ...

Two nearly perfectly preserved Ice Age lion cubs were found in Russia, still with whiskers and fur. Scientists say the cubs, nicknamed Sparta and Boris, lived around 28,000 and 43,000 years ago.

A missing fragment of a famous Ice Age figurine discovered 20 years ago has been unearthed, presenting some puzzling questions for archaeologists.

The American lion was the largest extinct cat to live in North America during the last ice age, according to the National Park Service. Known by its scientific name, Panthera atrox, meaning ...

Ice age lion figurine: Ancient fragment of ivory belonging to 40,000 year old animal figurine unearthed. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 07 ...

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Roughly 13,000 years ago, Ice Age animals such as saber-toothed cats, the American lion and mammoths started going extinct in the Los Angeles basin, about a thousand years before their extinction ...

The mummified remains of two cave lion cubs were discovered in Russia, and the recently unveiled specimens may be the best examples of cave lion mummies in the world. Boris, the male cub, was ...