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13,000 years ago, North Americans used cheetah, lion bones to sew furs against the blistering cold
In a recent breakthrough, archaeologists from the University of Wyoming have unearthed bone needles crafted from ... bobcats, mountain lions, lynx, and the now-extinct American cheetah to create ...
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Shining new light on South Africa's lion bone trade
The authors speculate that bone exports to Asia may be connected to lion bone being used as a substitute for tiger bone in tonics. In 2005, TRAFFIC found evidence that African lion bones were an ...
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Lion parts 'sold as fake tiger products' in Asia
"In April this year, Chinese police arrested a trader in Nanjing, eastern China, who had purchased what he believed was tiger bone which upon DNA testing was found to be lion bone," it said.
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Barbary lion skull from London
As the infilling of bone grew it would have put pressure on to the spinal cord and possibly caused paralysis and blindness.' Today, zoos keep their lions healthy by feeding them more complete diets of ...