Scientists have studied the feeding habits of the extinct Cave Bear. Based on the isotope composition in the collagen of the bears' bones, they were able to show that the large mammals subsisted ...

No cave bear has awoken from this final hibernation, but the animals' DNA lives on: A new study confirms that about 0.9 to 2.4 percent of living brown bears' DNA traces back to the extinct species.

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The bone analyzed in the new study—a petrous bone from the inner ear of an extinct cave bear—was approximately seven times older than any the team had studied before, “showing that genome ...

Cave bears' inflexible eating habits might have led to their demise, a new study suggests. The ancient bears, which went extinct about 25,000 years ago and stood as tall as 5.5 feet at the ...

AN ANCIENT bear has been discovered completely intact after being frozen for around 30,000 years. The now extinct type of cave bear was found on a Siberian island where scientists search for the ...

The bear, unearthed in 2020, was originally assumed to be an extinct cave bear that dated back at least 22,000 years. But a new necropsy reveals it is actually a brown bear that lived 3,500 years ago.

Reindeer herders in Siberia were stunned to discover a mummified Ice Age cave bear — with all of its organs intact. The 39,500-year-old specimen belonged to a species of prehistoric bears that ...

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 ...

Extinct cave bear DNA is present in living brown bears, a new study reveals, shedding light on a hybridization that happened during the late Pleistocene era. The last cave bears died out about ...