The cave bear started to become extinct in Europe 24,000 years ... radiocarbon dating of the fossil remains shows that the cave bear ceased to be abundant in Central Europe around 35,000 years ...

For their study, the researchers examined the remains of 59 cave bear specimens found across more than a dozen fossil sites throughout Europe.

The cave bear started to become extinct in Europe 24,000 years ... radiocarbon dating of the fossil remains shows that the cave bear ceased to be abundant in Central Europe around 35,000 years ...

Countless fossils, especially from the European Alps and including many skeletons representing all ages, have allowed paleontologists to reconstruct the life and times of the cave bear in great ...

Paleontologists discovered the 35,000-year-old skull of a small cave bear in a Russian cave. ... because only 20 to 30 cave bear bones in the entire Eurasian fossil record show signs of butchering.

In 1941, a human skull was unearthed during mining in Romanian cave, along with stone tools and cave bear fossils. The 33,000-year-old discovery became one of the earliest dated and well-preserved ...

A key question going into the DNA analysis was how closely this bear might be related to more recent cave bears (those that lived less than approximately 50,000 years ago) from the same region and ...

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 that prowled Europe more than 40,000 years ago left a little something behind: a collection of DNA snippets whose identification by researchers suggests that other long-extinct animals may ...

SPRINGFIELD, MO. — The bear that left a 3-foot-long claw mark in an Ice Age clay bank was the largest bear species ever to walk the earth, about 6 feet tall at the shoulder and capable of moving ...