A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

If big cats ever found themselves in a zero-gravity environment like space, how would their legendary hunting skills adapt?

A team of archaeologists has found what they claim to be the skeleton of a gladiator who was bitten by a big cat — the first ...

A gruesome new discovery provides the first skeletal proof of humans being attacked by big cats in Roman gladiatorial spectacles. Found in a cemetery near York, the bones show clear bite marks from a ...

A new study uncovers evidence of gladiatorial combat between humans and lions in Roman Britain. Forensic analysis of a ...

Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British ...

In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...

For instance, archaeologists in 2022 announced the discovery of the bones of bears and big cats at the Colosseum. "Predatory animals - above all big cats but also sometimes other animals ...

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

Learn how forensic evidence confirms that gladiator and lion combat did occur, and why experts think these fights didn't just ...

The discovery on remains found in York highlight how humans fighting large cats was entertainment on the edge of the Roman ...