{"id":3328,"date":"2025-09-08T12:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/fossil-evidence-hints-that-roman-gladiators-did-battle-with-bears\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:06:24","slug":"fossil-evidence-hints-that-roman-gladiators-did-battle-with-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/fossil-evidence-hints-that-roman-gladiators-did-battle-with-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossil evidence hints that Roman Gladiators did battle with bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-09-08 12:06:22<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Roman Gladiators fought against bears.<BR><br \/>\nNew fossil evidence has suggested that the warriors in Ancient Rome went into battle with a variety of wild animals, even though film director Ridley Scott was mocked for portraying them riding rhinos and fighting sharks in the movie Gladiator II.<BR><br \/>\nExperts in Serbia have presented the first fossil evidence of a brown bear that went up against human fighters in the Roman amphitheatre.<BR><br \/>\nThe mammal&#8217;s preserved skull suggests that it suffered a blow to the head which likely caused its death.<BR><br \/>\nStudy author Nemanja Markovic, from Belgrade&#8217;s Institute of Archaeology, told Live Science: &#8220;We cannot say with certainty whether the bear died directly in the arena.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;But the evidence suggests the trauma occurred during spectacles and the subsequent infection likely contributed significantly to its death.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThe researchers added: &#8220;It remains possible that civilians (and) professional hunters&#8230; were involved in capturing beasts for games.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-09-08 12:06:22 Roman Gladiators fought against bears. New fossil evidence has suggested that the warriors in Ancient Rome went into battle with a variety of wild animals, even though film&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3330,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions\/3330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}