The method may be harsh, but the yield is precious—the chemical biography of a cave bear. Bocherens, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Tübingen, Germany, is in the vanguard of ...

Claw marks and signs of burrowing show it was also used by cave bears, prehistoric relatives of the brown bear. Inside their hibernation chambers, researchers have found the remains of six human ...

Human remains found deep in a Polish cave bear unmistakable ... animals that were once native to the area and are one of the most significant discoveries of prehistoric art to date.

Discovering any collection of Paleolithic art is rare ... “It was covered by a bear scratch,” Ruiz-Redondo says. The mark was made by a cave bear, an animal that went extinct 24,000 years ...