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Humans played a much bigger role than previously thought in driving the cave bear to extinction, according to new evidence revealed last week. The enormous bears, which typically lived in Asia and ...

It’s this conflict that may have ultimately pushed the animals to extinction. For their study, the researchers examined the remains of 59 cave bear specimens found across more than a dozen ...

No cave bear has awoken from this final hibernation, but the animals' DNA lives on: A new study confirms that about 0.9 to 2.4 percent of living brown bears' DNA traces back to the extinct species.

Cave bears' inflexible eating habits might have led to their demise, a new study suggests. The ancient bears, which went extinct about 25,000 years ago and stood as tall as 5.5 feet at the ...

The bone analyzed in the new study—a petrous bone from the inner ear of an extinct cave bear—was approximately seven times older than any the team had studied before, “showing that genome ...

About 25,000 years ago in Western Europe, the last cave bear drew its final breath and the species went extinct. Posted 2018-08-27T18:07:04+00:00 - Updated 2018-08-27T18:01:41+00:00 ...

About 25,000 years ago in Western Europe, the last cave bear drew its final breath and the species went extinct. But a study published last month in Nature Ecology & Evolution finds that some cave ...

Cave bears were a species of bear (Ursus spelaeus) that lived in Europe and Asia and went extinct about 24,000 years ago. According to Figueirido, researchers have proposed different diets for cave ...

The cave bear started to become extinct in Europe 24,000 years ago, but until now the cause was unknown. An international team of scientists has analyzed mitochondrial DNA sequences from 17 new ...

Published Thursday in the journal Nature, the study suggests that the extinction of Ursus spelaeus, also known as the cave bear — which has been widely debated — may have been driven by humans ...