A small cave bear skull (left) and an arrowhead discovered in Russia's Imanay Cave. Ural Federal University Paleontologists discovered the 35,000-year-old skull of a small cave bear in a Russian cave.

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 ...

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 ...

The fossilized remains of a brown bear were discovered near the Viminacium amphitheater in Serbia, a Roman gladiator. The male brown bear suffered a fracture to its frontal bone, which resulted in an ...

A Yakima man who tried to sell a bear skull online has pleaded guilty to a wildlife charge. Jeremy Allan Hunter, 45, pleaded guilty to second-degree trafficking in wildlife and second-degree unlawful ...

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 ...