The European cave lion (Panthera spelaea), also known as the Eurasian cave lion and steppe lion was an ancient lion belonging to the extinct Panthera genus. This lion became extinct over 13,000 ...

TASS/. Researchers in the Department of Mammoth Fauna Studies at the Yakutian Academy of Sciences in Yakutsk, Russia's Siberia, are looking at bringing extinct cave lions back to life. The press ...

The story of the man-eating lions is fairly well-known, but one Field Museum expert went the extra mile to confirm a specific part of the story.

There’s evidence across at least three continents of the lions’ glory days and their decline. Chauvet Cave, in southern France, filled with vivid Paleolithic paintings of wildlife, shows us ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Two Ice Age cave lion cubs were found frozen in permafrost this past summer. Now researchers are attempting to clone them. Produced by Matt Stuart. Video courtesy AP.

This story appears in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. This is where the cave lions are. And the woolly rhinos, mammoths, and bison, a menagerie of ancient creatures ...