Oct. 20—Be prepared. It's a simple statement. Yet, it warns of the many emotions that will be felt during the more than two-hour performance of Disney's "The Lion King." The Tony Award-winning ...

Cave lions, larger than today's African lions, once dominated Ice Age Europe's mammoth steppes. These formidable predators, lacking manes, hunted giant herbivores and interacted with early humans ...

Neanderthals skillfully hunted giant cave lions, a study showed for the first time. The findings suggest the animals were carefully pelted, maybe for some kind of ritualistic purpose.

During the ice age, the cave lion ruled over the mammoth steppes as the apex predator; genetic studies confirm it was a distinct species, different from today’s African lion, and existed around ...