the cave lion, roamed from Spain all the way through Eurasia and into modern-day Alaska and the Yukon and was widely depicted in prehistoric cave art. Meanwhile, the American lion, which was even ...

Cave art of a lion with a luscious mane drawn deep in a Puerto Rican cave about 500 years ago might have been created by an enslaved African, new research suggests. "We have an image that looks ...

Angel Acosta-Colon (shown here) poses with a number of pictographs, including an unusual find—an animal that looks like a lion. He speculates that this may be the first cave art drawn by slaves ...

Already part of the landscape in Europe, humans painted and carved portraits of these enormous lions in caves, including the famed Chauvet Cave in France. Cave art has provided scientists with ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Neanderthals cooked crab and created art, but they also could have ...

The relationship between early humans and lions is poorly known, despite these animals being a prominent feature of cave art made by prehistoric Homo sapiens. "These interactions are exceedingly rare.

Now extinct, cave lions were apex predators, larger than today's mountain lions. They were frequently depicted in Paleolithic art, and their body parts were used as ornaments, according to the ...

Art and other discoveries from the caves suggest ... Many unique animals lived during the Ice Age. Other than bears and cave lions, the period saw famous creatures such as the mammoth and saber ...

To him, figures like the lion carving could represent rituals, like people dressing up as animals while hunting. Still, he says, it’s difficult to say for certain. In general, there are two ways of ...

For a while, Lion Man was thought of as the oldest depiction of a half-human, half-animal figure. However, newly dated rock art in an Indonesian cave shows an even older hybrid creature from ...