A study published in Science Advances on April 1 reveals a new hypothesis that may explain why European cave bears went extinct during past climate change periods. The research was motivated by ...

Cavemen may have had to jostle with bears to settle into caves up to 32,000 years ago, as research shows cave bears lived in the same spaces coveted by prehistoric humans. The new study on cave bears, ...

Using growth layers on the bear's skull, the researchers dated the remains at 35,000 years old and concluded that the cave bear was an adult around ten years old when it died. UrFU/Elizaveta ...

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Cave bears were hulking beasts you wouldn’t want to run into in the dark (even if they were mostly vegetarians). But it seems a human got the better of one of these now-extinct ursids, according to an ...

Around 25,000 years ago, the hulking cave bear went extinct following a long period of decline. But the ancient creatures’ genes did not die out with the species. As Michael Greshko reports for ...

Closeup of the first-ever preserved grown up cave bear - even the soft tissue of its nose is intact - unearthed on Bolshoy Lyakhovsky island. The extinct cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) may have been ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Giant cave bears froze to death during the last Ice Age in Europe about 28,000 years ago, according to a study on Wednesday that cleared human hunters of driving them to extinction ...