Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion.

Bite marks on a Roman-era skeleton found in York are the first physical evidence gladiators fought animals, experts have said ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

A Roman-era skeleton from York, northern England, shows signs of having been bitten by a big cat, thus providing the first ...

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

Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against animals in the arena—animals capable of killing a human being. Skeletal ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of 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 ...