Nearly a decade ago, archaeologists found the broken skull of a bear among the ruins of a Roman amphitheater in eastern Serbia. By examining its bones and teeth, researchers have now drawn a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Archaeologists found a ...

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 — ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of researchers led by Francesc Marginedas, of the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, discovered ...

There are no bears on most of the Aleutians Islands today. But a new study reveals that bears likely lived in Unalaska and Amaknak Island thousands of years ago, solving a decades-long archaeological ...

The battered skull of a brown bear discovered near a Roman amphitheater in Serbia reveals that the wild animal had been kept in captivity for years and was fighting off an infection when it died ...

Brown bear sample localities and population structure. (a) Map showing the localities of the ancient and contemporary brown bear genomes analyzed. Calibrated radiocarbon ages of the ancient samples ...