Enormous cave bears that once inhabited Europe were the first of the mega-mammals to die out, going extinct around 13 millennia earlier than was previously thought, according to a new estimate.

Reindeer hunters in Siberia have unearthed the remains of an extinct ice age beast: a mummified cave bear — the only adult of its species ever discovered that still has intact soft tissues, including ...

Reindeer herders on the Lyakhovsky Islands in the Russian Arctic recently came across the remains of an Ice Age bear that roamed Earth tens of thousands of years ago. The bear carcass, scientists say, ...