Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The skeleton, likely of a man who died between the ages of 26 and 35, shows bite marks on the pelvis from a big cat, which could ...

A skeleton recovered from an intriguing Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators and animals, according to new research. The skeleton of a man, ...

(CN) — A skeleton found in a Roman cemetery in York offers the first physical evidence of a gladiator fighting — and dying — in combat with a lion, or large cat. The research, published Wednesday in ...

Puncture injuries by large felid scavenging on both sides of bone. A skeleton from Roman-era England has bite marks consistent with those of a large cat like a lion, suggesting that this individual ...

Scientists discovered bite marks from a lion on a human skeleton in Roman York, providing the first physical evidence of human-animal gladiatorial combat in Britain The victim was a young adult male ...