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 ...

A grizzly bear, also known as a North American brown bear, sniffs the wind for a scent of food or danger. Some of this bear's DNA probably traces back to extinct cave bears that interbred with ...

A tiny ear bone belonging to a cave bear that died some 360,000 years ago has yielded the oldest genome not sourced from permafrost. The newly sequenced genome is offering new insights into the ...

Until now, very little is known about the dietary evolution of the cave bear and how it became a vegetarian, as the fossils of the direct ancestor, the Deninger's bear (Ursus deningeri), are ...

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 ...

Cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) went extinct just prior to the end of the last ice age some 15,000 years ago, though possibly as early as 27,800 years ago.

Most dramatically, a cave bear skull was perched on a stone slab in the center of one chamber, placed deliberately by some long-gone cave inhabitant with opposable thumbs.

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.

About 25,000 years ago in Western Europe, the last cave bear drew its final breath and the species went extinct.

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.

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 ...