Ridley Scott may have been ridiculed for portraying gladiators riding rhinos and scrapping with sharks in his latest film. But it seems the real Roman fighters did pick fights with a colourful array ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fossilized remains of a brown bear were discovered near the Viminacium amphitheater in Serbia, a Roman gladiator. The male ...

Archaeologists have published the first fossil evidence that brown bears (Ursus arctos) fought alongside human gladiators in Roman amphitheaters, in a study recently published in the journal Antiquity ...