During the Paleolithic era 35,000 years ago, a small cave bear settled into a cave to hibernate. It never woke up. Human hunters most likely found the bear — a species called Ursus rossicus — napping ...

While exploring a cave in Germany, archaeologists discovered a rare trove of ancient artifacts and remains left by prehistoric humans — and cave bears. Officials said more than 10,000 animal bones and ...

Cave bears no longer exist. They went extinct tens of thousands of years ago, and all we have left of the massive ancient creatures are fossils. Figuring exactly why they disappeared has proven to be ...

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 ...

Cave bears have fascinated humans for the past 32,000 years. Our Paleolithic ancestors competed with the now-extinct mammals for caves — prime real estate — and then covered their walls with images of ...

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 other ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cave bears were giant plant eating bears that roamed Europe and northern Asia, and went extinct around 25 thousand years ago. They hibernated in caves during the winter. This was a dangerous time, as ...

These firefighters are the bearers of good news. A dog was rescued after spending three days trapped in a Tennessee cave with a 200-pound bear, according to local officials. Fire officials in Waldens ...