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 ...

Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of the use of clothing, with newly discovered cut marks on a cave bear paw suggesting the prehistoric animals were skinned ...

Humans started using cave bear skins 320,000 years ago, and with the appearance of Homo sapiens in Europe 45,000 years ago, hunting pressure on the animal intensified until Ursus spelaeus became ...

300,000-year-old cave markings in Germany suggest Stone Age humans were wearing clothes. Humans skinned huge cave bears to keep warm, per markings on bones analyzed by experts. It's difficult to ...

For centuries, Germany’s Unicorn Cave has been a lure for people seeking secrets from the past. In the Middle Ages, people literally mined the site for mammoth tusks, cave bear teeth, and the ...

European cave bears went extinct between 27,000 to 28,000 years ago, according to Britannica. The cave bears were anywhere from 880 to 2,200 pounds and similar in size to Kodiak bears found in ...

In order to endure Europe’s frigid winters, Stone Age humans likely wrapped themselves in ponchos fashioned from cave bear skins, according to a study published in the Journal of Human Evolution ...

They didn’t properly consider the bone biting and crushing patterns of ice age hyenas that scavenged extensively in European cave bear dens. In a recent Royal Society Open Science paper, Diedrich ...

The oldest-known human bones in Europe were just discovered in a cave in Bulgaria. The cave also contained ancient tools handcrafted by these early humans over 40,000 years ago.