Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from a prehistoric bear, a new analysis shows. Not only that, the items are ...

After the bones were discovered in a Toyohashi quarry in 1957 and 1959, they were reported to represent rare examples of Late Pleistocene human remains ... but a 20,000-year-old bear and reported ...

The cave bear, scientifically known as Ursus spelaeus, is one of the most well-documented megafaunal mammals from the Late Pleistocene era. These bears roamed across Europe and parts of Asia ...

The annual celebration will feature dinosaur-themed events — such as a “Dino Dinner” — film screenings and the annual Polar ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

While today's elk stand roughly 1.2m tall, their Pleistocene ancestor stood nearly ... dating back to between 500,000 and 125,000 years ago. Polar bears may have also been on the prowl some ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Footprints in Honseca Cave, Spain, attributed to cave bears from the Late Pleistocene, have been systematically studied for the first time in the Iberian ...

New upgrades are coming to the Appalachian Bear Rescue site after state wildlife officers decided to euthanize 13 bears because of an illness.

CELINA - Though dinosaurs are the most notable of the prehistoric animals, smaller mammals and fish walked and swam in Ohio, ...

In the 19th century, archaeologists in Poland unearthed a stunning cave filled with prehistoric secrets. The Maszycka Cave, ...