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 ...

The cave bear, Ursus spelaeus, was a prominent member of the Pleistocene megafauna in Europe, whose evolutionary history and ecological dynamics continue to captivate palaeontologists and evolutionary ...

Hervé Bocherens says his colleagues find his research methods a little "crude." He dissolves 30,000-year-old animal bones in hydrochloric acid strong enough to burn through metal, soaks the bone ...

Finally, last but not least, I’ll wrap things up with Cave Bears. They, like Cleveland’s Clan of the Cave Bear, have successfully combined both caves and bears, but the mind-expanding experimental, ...

BUFFALO, N. Y. — 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 ...

Scientists have studied the feeding habits of the extinct Cave Bear. Based on the isotope composition in the collagen of the bears' bones, they were able to show that the large mammals subsisted on a ...

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 ...

The skull of an small cave bear from the last Ice Age has been found in Russia and it may hold the earliest evidence of the animal being hunted by humans. A team from the Ural Federal University ...