The team proposes that it was this inflexible diet that led to the Cave Bear's extinction approximately 25,000 years ago. Skip to main content. Your source for the latest research news.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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.