A new study on multiple genomes from the extinct cave lion has discovered that it represented a highly distinct evolutionary lineage, which separated from modern lions more than a million years ago.

Image of the frozen cave lion cub named Sparta, which has been radiocarbon dated to ca 32,000 years before present and genetically identified as a female. Sparta was found in 2018 in Belaya Gora, near ...

Scientists compared cave lion genomes to modern lions Ice Age apex predator was larger than its modern cousin Lived in Western Europe, Siberia and into North America Cave lions went extinct roughly 14 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The remains of a frozen female cave lion cub named Sparta, about 32,000 years old and recovered in northeastern Siberia, are ...