The idea was popularized by Jean Auel's 1980 novel, The Clan of the Cave Bear, but has since been rejected by researchers. Modern humans arrived in Europe about 40,000 years ago and were soon ...

Ancient humans may have hunted the prehistoric European cave bear to extinction at the end of the last Ice Age 40,000 years ago. Researchers headed-up by the University of Zurich looked at animal ...

The bear has appeared in cave paintings dated from the time early humans were moving throughout Europe, so we know that the two species came into contact frequently.

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 ...

The cave bear (scientific name Ursus spelaeus) was one of the charismatic inhabitants of Ice Age Europe alongside animals like the cave lion, woolly rhino, woolly mammoth and steppe bison.

Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of the use of clothing, with newly discovered cut marks on a cave bear paw suggesting the prehistoric animals were skinned ...

This alpine cave is one of the several European ice caves melting at an alarming rate due to global climate ... Bear’s Cave exhibits some of the 140 prehistoric bear skeletons preserved in the ...

The oldest-known human bones in Europe were just discovered in a cave in Bulgaria. The cave also contained ancient tools handcrafted by these early humans over 40,000 years ago.

They didn’t properly consider the bone biting and crushing patterns of ice age hyenas that scavenged extensively in European cave bear dens. In a recent Royal Society Open Science paper, Diedrich ...

In order to endure Europe’s frigid winters, Stone Age humans likely wrapped themselves in ponchos fashioned from cave bear skins, according to a study published in the Journal of Human Evolution ...

European cave bears went extinct between 27,000 to 28,000 years ago, according to Britannica. The cave bears were anywhere from 880 to 2,200 pounds and similar in size to Kodiak bears found in ...