During the last Ice Age, more than 100 cave bears died in Imanay Cave, a 100-meter-long corridor of stone in Russia’s southern Ural Mountains. The dead bears, along with a cave lion and a few ...

Paleontologists discovered the 35,000-year-old skull of a small cave bear in a Russian cave. The skull had a distinct, oblong hole in it. A recent study suggests human hunters were to blame ...

Elucidating the biology of huge extinct cave bears Date: August 24, 2017 Source: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Summary: One of the largest known species of bear, the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus ...

Firefighters encountered an unexpected challenge while rescuing a dog trapped in a Tennessee cave: A black bear was also there. The dog, Charlie, spent three days trapped nearly 40 feet deep in an ...

The team proposes that it was this inflexible diet that led to the Cave Bear's extinction approximately 25,000 years ago. Skip to main content. Your source for the latest research news.

Reindeer herders on the Siberian island of Bolshoy Lyakhovsky recently stumbled across the frozen carcass of a cave bear. Nearby, on the Siberian mainland of Yakutia, a tiny, beautifully preserved ...