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 ...

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 ...

The fossilized bones of the so-called Ushikawa Man, once believed to be among the oldest human fossils in Japan, have been identified as the remains of an ancient brown bear. Gen Suwa, an ...

Bears look like textbook mammals, but hidden in their evolutionary history are two dramatic departures from the standard blueprint of growth and adaptation. For the first time, scientists have ...

Long before modern bears were around, Earth was home to massive bear species. Like today’s bears, these animals roamed forests and tundra. However, these ancient animals towered over today’s largest ...

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 ...

In a Russia rock formation once used as a quarry, an ancient gigantic bear jawbone was discovered. Elizabeth George via Unsplash Prehistoric creatures came in all shapes and sizes, from the towering ...

The most complete bear ever recovered from Siberia’s frozen ground looks less like a fossil and more like a sleeping animal ...

The brown bear is one of the largest living terrestrial carnivores, and is widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere. Unlike many other large carnivores that went extinct at the end of the ...

There was some real “grizzly” violence in the arena. It turns out that the “Gladiator” movies’ lurid depictions of man-on-beast gladiatorial bouts aren’t as far-fetched as some might believe — ...

Prehistoric creatures came in all shapes and sizes, from the towering dinosaurs to the small mammals on the forest floor. Many of these animals were preserved in rock formations upon their death, ...