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It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

"The implications of our multidisciplinary study are huge," said study lead author and anthropologist professor Tim Thompson.

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

that the lion is mauling or dragging this individual on the ground," he continued. "At the end, when one or both were dead, there would be a burial for the gladiator and the use of the animal ...