The most complete bear ever recovered from Siberia’s frozen ground looks less like a fossil and more like a sleeping animal caught mid-breath. Fur, skin, even internal organs have survived in the ...

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 ...

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The cave bear, Ursus spelaeus, was a prominent member of the Pleistocene megafauna in Europe, whose evolutionary history and ecological dynamics continue to captivate palaeontologists and evolutionary ...