A new analysis of “il Principe,” an ancient, decorated skeleton found in northwest Italy, confirms that the child died up to three days after being brutally attacked ...

The mystery of a Stone Age teenager's death has been solved — 80 years after he was found in an ancient burial ground in ...

Their conclusion: an animal mauling - most plausibly a brown bear ( Ursus arctos) or extinct cave bear ( Ursus spelaeus) - best fits the evidence. When Il Principe was excavated in 1942, ...

High-altitude mountain passes were not the kind of place to sleep out in the open during the Ice Age, and Neanderthals couldn ...

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 ...