Collectively, these findings not only reinforce the role of climatic and ecological pressures in cave bear evolution but also pave the way for a deeper understanding of how environmental factors ...

Stone Age humans likely wrapped themselves in ponchos fashioned from cave bear skins, according to a study published in the Journal of Human Evolution on Dec. 23. Researchers came to this ...

The cave bear’s coat, which has long outer hairs ... according to the study published in the Journal Of Human Evolution on December 23. The clothing probably consisted of skins that were wrapped ...

the cave bear was much larger and more robust than its relative, the brown bear, which has survived to this day. A team of researchers from the University of Tübingen, the University of Göttingen, the ...

That evolution, in turn, changed the shape of cave bears' skulls, potentially compromising their ability to chew, the authors said. The very thin cutmarks found on the Schöningen bear bones ...

Found in Slovenia in 1995, the Neanderthal-made flute was made out of the thigh bone of a prehistoric cave bear. The flute was made about 60,000 years ago and is the oldest known musical ...