A tiny community of what is today northern Italy had long before hospitals or written records to ask a question which so far seems to be a contemporary question: what, then, exactly, became of a young ...

A prehistoric Italian teenager may have met a violent end at the claws and teeth of a bear, according to new research. The ...

Reindeer herders in a Russian Arctic archipelago have found an immaculately preserved carcass of an Ice Age cave bear, researchers said Monday. The find, revealed by the melting permafrost, was ...

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 ...

Introduction -- Crises in the history of life -- The Ice Age and the megafauna -- Cold case : the search for the Ice Age killer -- Northern Eurasia : woolly rhinos, cave bears, and giant deer -- North ...