at the bottom of a pit in a narrow Romanian cave. There were no claw marks on the stone, no signs of a struggle, just the silence of a pitfall trap that offered no return. But this brown bear’s ...

The method may be harsh, but the yield is precious—the chemical biography of a cave bear. Bocherens, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Tübingen, Germany, is in the vanguard of ...

Bear tracks are not uncommon ... suggest that in both cases they belong to cave bears, a species that went extinct about 28,000 years ago, rather than brown bears. "Unfortunately, some of the ...

A census of brown bears using DNA for the first time has revealed that up to 13,000 of the protected species are living in ...

Claw marks and signs of burrowing show it was also used by cave bears, prehistoric relatives of the brown bear. Inside their hibernation chambers, researchers have found the remains of six human ...

Archaeological findings on France's Ile de Ré reveal North Sea trade links Claw marks and signs of burrowing also attest to the presence of the cave bear, a distant relative of the brown bear.

Claw marks and signs of burrowing show it was also used by cave bears, prehistoric relatives of the brown bear. Inside their hibernation chambers, researchers have found the remains of six human ...