The bear has appeared in cave paintings dated from the time early humans were moving throughout Europe, so we know that the two species came into contact frequently.

Ancient humans may have hunted the prehistoric European cave bear to extinction at the end of the last Ice Age 40,000 years ago. Researchers headed-up by the University of Zurich looked at animal ...

Humans played a much bigger role than previously thought in driving the cave bear to extinction, ... which completely died out about 24,000 years ago and typically lived in Asia and Europe, ...

The cave bear (scientific name Ursus spelaeus) was one of the charismatic inhabitants of Ice Age Europe alongside animals like the cave lion, woolly rhino, woolly mammoth and steppe bison.

Chronological and Isotopic data support a revision for the timing of cave bear extinction in Mediterranean Europe. Historical Biology , 2018; 1 DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2018.1448395 Cite This Page : ...

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 ...

The idea was popularized by Jean Auel's 1980 novel, The Clan of the Cave Bear, but has since been rejected by researchers. Modern humans arrived in Europe about 40,000 years ago and were soon ...

The team proposes that it was this inflexible diet that led to the Cave Bear's extinction approximately 25,000 ... Cave Bears (Ursus spelaeus) lived in Europe during the most recent glacial ...

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 ...

A new study finds that the extinct European cave bear’s large sinuses represent a tradeoff between hibernation length and the flexibility of ... “Biomechanical simulations reveal a trade-off between ...

The perfectly preserved remains of an Ice Age cave bear have been discovered in the Russian Arctic – the first example of the species ever to be found with soft tissues intact.