South Africa has been legally exporting lion skeletons since 2008. Back then, the bones typically entered the international market as a by-product of the trophy hunting industry.

Among them were numerous lion bones from 13 sites. Evidently, modern lions—the same species that roams the savanna in parts of Africa today—had a history in Europe.

Lion bones are used to make what’s marketed as tiger bone wine, a luxury, while claws and teeth are turned into jewellery. In at least eight wildlife seizures in China, ...

Lion bones already feed illegal markets. One early buyer, for instance, was Vixay Keosavang, a Lao national who formerly headed a major wildlife trafficking syndicate spanning Africa, Southeast ...

Nearly 80 percent of lion bones exported from South Africa to Laos from 2014 to 2019 went to three companies: Somaok Phaimany, Ainthaphone, and Sinthavy Imports.

13,000 years ago, North Americans used cheetah, lion bones to sew furs against the blistering cold. ... The team analyzed 32 bone needle fragments collected at the La Prele Mammoth site.

A Roman Gladiator and a Lion Met in Combat. Only One Walked Away. A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the Roman Empire.

Trade in Wild African Lion Bones Banned . JOHANNESBURG, South Africa— Countries from around the world today banned all commercial trade in wild African lion bones and parts in response to growing ...

South Africa to Export 1,500 Lion Skeletons Per Year—Legally. South Africa has nearly doubled the amount of lion bones that can leave the country, in a move many say could encourage illegal trade.

The team also analyzed cave lion claw bones they discovered in the Einhornhöhle Cave in Germany in 2019 that are at least 190,000 years old, based on the layer of sediment in which they were found.