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 ...

Firefighters encountered an unexpected challenge while rescuing a dog trapped in a Tennessee cave: A black bear was also there. The dog, Charlie, spent three days trapped nearly 40 feet deep in an ...

Cave bears were hulking beasts you wouldn’t want to run into in the dark (even if they were mostly vegetarians). But it seems a human got the better of one of these now-extinct ursids, according to an ...

Casey Anderson is a Montana-based wildlife photographer who has traveled all over the world and has worked with National Geographic, Discovery, and the BBC. He also does a lot of exploring and filming ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While exploring a cave in Germany, archaeologists discovered a rare trove of ancient artifacts and remains left by prehistoric ...

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 ...

The sound echoed inside the twin caves near Sonnenbühl, Germany, like it has for millions of years. Water droplets from the stalactites hit my hat and then trickled down onto my shoulders. Bärenhöhle ...