ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The caramel-colored skull of an ancient cave bear believed to be at least 60,000 years old is up for auction in Anchorage. The Alaska Auction Company received the skull ...

People have been excavating cave bear remains for hundreds of years—in the Middle Ages, the massive skulls were attributed to dragons—but the past decade has seen a burst of discoveries about ...

They fill shelves and boxes, embellish windowsills and walls. A Pleistocene cave bear skull from Russia's Ural Mountains dominates one shelf. Nearby reside the relics of elk and lynx, coyote and ...

A previous specimen featured only its skulls and bones ... which lasted from 2.9 million and 11,700 years ago. Indeed, this ...

Three skulls were carefully shaped to create cups or bowls ... Horses were a major food source - horse bones found in the cave often bear cut marks and breakage patterns consistent with the extraction ...