Russian scientists discovered the full carcass of a now-extinct species of bear earlier this month, its snout locked in a snarl after millennia in the frozen ground. “It is completely preserved, with ...

Reindeer hunters found the remains of the bear on the Bolshoy Lyakhovsky islands in the East Siberian Sea and donated the carcass to Northeastern Federal University (NEFU) in Yakutsk, according to the ...

Hervé Bocherens says his colleagues find his research methods a little "crude." He dissolves 30,000-year-old animal bones in hydrochloric acid strong enough to burn through metal, soaks the bone ...

A prehistoric Italian teenager may have met a violent end at the claws and teeth of a bear, according to new research. The adolescent, thought to have been 15–16 years old, was discovered in a cave in ...