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Reindeer herders in Siberia were stunned to discover a mummified Ice Age cave bear — with all of its organs intact. The 39,500-year-old specimen belonged to a species of prehistoric bears that ...
The caramel-colored skull of an ancient cave bear is believed to be at least 60,000 years old, and it’s up for auction in Anchorage.
Prehistoric humans intentionally modified stalagmites in the Cova Dones cave in Spain, forming over 100 structures—known as speleofacts—as a result. The recent archaeological find becomes one ...
Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of the use of clothing, with newly discovered cut marks on a cave bear paw suggesting the prehistoric animals were skinned ...
The animals that plummeted 85 feet into Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave provide a layered history of life dating back to the ...
Researchers found a missing fragment of a famed ornament discovered 20 years ago, in an Ice Age cave.
Researchers have discovered hundreds of prehistoric animal bones—including the remains of a cave lion and a mammoth—at a cave in Poland.
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.
Mammoth Cave is located about 30 minutes outside Bowling Green, Kentucky by car. According to the park’s website, prehistoric seas deposited limestone in the area around 325 million years ago.
For over 20 years, archaeologists in Germany thought a 35,000-year-old figurine they found was a horse. Now, they aren't sure whether or not it's a cave lion or cave bear.
Tool markings found on the fossilized bones of a 300,000-year-old prehistoric cave bear seem to indicate that humans in Europe skinned the animals, a new study found.
Prehistoric humans intentionally modified stalagmites in the Cova Dones cave in Spain, forming over 100 structures—known as speleofacts—as a result.