Firefighters encountered an unexpected challenge while rescuing a dog trapped in a Tennessee cave: A black bear was also there. The dog, Charlie, spent three days trapped nearly 40 feet deep in an ...

Europe's brown bears repeatedly reshaped their jaws during the Ice Age, a flexibility that may have helped them outlast cave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While exploring a cave in Germany, archaeologists discovered a rare trove of ancient artifacts and remains left by prehistoric ...

These firefighters are the bearers of good news. A dog was rescued after spending three days trapped in a Tennessee cave with a 200-pound bear, according to local officials. Fire officials in Waldens ...

Lessons from extinction could help protect the bears of today. New research reveals that the now-extinct cave bear was much more adaptable than once thought yet was still made extinct when faced with ...

Russian scientists discovered the full carcass of a now-extinct species of bear earlier this month, its snout locked in a snarl after millennia in the frozen ground. “It is completely preserved, with ...

Humans started wearing clothing as early as the Stone Age, new research suggests. Tool markings found on the fossilized bones of a 300,000-year-old prehistoric cave bear seem to indicate that humans ...

Exploration staff at Bridal Cave in Camdenton discovered claw marks believed to be made by an extinct species of bear from ...

European brown bears are masters of survival: These animals have weathered Pleistocene climate fluctuations and survived the cycles of ice ages and interglacial periods to the present day. Zoologists ...