That’s not as surprising as it sounds—there’s some evidence of people killing and even butchering other bear species, like large cave bears and brown bears, during the Pleistocene.

NEFUThe wholly-intact teeth of a prehistoric cave bear whose species went extinct about 20,000 years ago. The Siberian ...

Russian paleontologists discovered the skull of a Pleistocene small cave bear with artificial damage in the Imanay Cave (Bashkiria, Russia). A bear aged 9-10 years was killed with a spear during ...

The perfectly preserved remains of a prehistoric cave bear have been discovered by reindeer herders on a remote island in the Russian Arctic. The Ice Age cave bear was found in melting permafrost ...

Prehistoric humans painted images of the animals ... The idea was popularized by Jean Auel's 1980 novel, The Clan of the Cave Bear, but has since been rejected by researchers.

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.

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Scientists knew that saber-toothed tigers were big — but this skull changes everything. "To picture a normal individual, ...

An artist’s depiction of early humans wearing cave bear skin ponchos ... according to the researchers. Other prehistoric groups around the world likely wore bear pelts as well, including Native ...

Found in Slovenia in 1995, the Neanderthal-made flute was made out of the thigh bone of a prehistoric cave bear. The flute was made about 60,000 years ago and is the oldest known musical ...

Russian paleontologists discovered the skull of a Pleistocene small cave bear with artificial damage in the Imanay Cave (Bashkiria, Russia). A bear aged 9–10 years was killed with a spear during ...