A 6,200-Year-Old Skull Proves a Teenage Boy Survived a Lion Attack in Prehistoric Bulgaria

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A Copper Age teenager in Bulgaria was mauled by a lion 6,200 years ago — puncture wounds on his skull match lion teeth exactly, and the healed bone proves his community kept him alive.

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