Siberian locals have discovered an incredible prehistoric time capsule in what paleontologists believe is the largest ancient hyena lair ever found in Asia. The cave contained a whole menagerie of ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead, they are the ...

Scientists may have had a breakthrough that will help solve a decades-old mystery involving ancient bear bones discovered in the Aleutian Islands, in Alaska. Brown and polar bear bones dating back ...

Lilly Parker and Kaylee Tatum at the Museum of the Aleutians helping sort fish, mammal, and bird remains from an archeological midden site in Unalaska. (Photo courtesy of Lilly Parker) Archaeologists ...

Using growth layers on the bear's skull, the researchers dated the remains at 35,000 years old and concluded that the cave bear was an adult around ten years old when it died. UrFU/Elizaveta ...

During the Paleolithic era 35,000 years ago, a small cave bear settled into a cave to hibernate. It never woke up. Human hunters most likely found the bear — a species called Ursus rossicus — napping ...

Scientists interested in fending off bone degradation have looked to one of the animal kingdom's most naturally gifted bone preservationists: the black bear. Researchers at the Pennsylvania State ...