A 1,800-year-old skeleton discovered in Roman Britain bears bite marks suggesting a violent death at the hands of a large ...

A Roman-era skeleton, unearthed in York, England, has provided the first physical evidence that British gladiators engaged in deadly battles not just with each other but with ferocious big cats. The ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Blood, sand, and death – for Romans, there was no better entertainment than watching gladiators fight exotic animals in ...

The government has asked for help from the armed forces to tackle the crisis as the situation in Britain's second city ...

Domestic cats are lethal hunters, killing at least 275 million other animals a year in Britain, a report showed today. The apparently cuddly pets prey on a number of declining and endangered ...

Animal rights activists will protest against the Veterinary Regulation Directorate (VRD) over their failure to seize a number of big cats that were found in an unregistered enclosure in Naxxar. In ...