Learn about the bear attack that may have killed "Il Principe," a prehistoric teenager whose skeleton was found in a lavish burial site.

Long before modern cities and borders, early humans shared the planet with enormous and often dangerous animals. Woolly ...

During the Ice Age, North America was home to a bear far larger than today’s grizzlies. Standing taller and built heavier, this predator occupied the top of the food chain. Fossil evidence shows it ...

Interpreting the symbolic thoughts and actions of prehistoric humans is therefore highly complicated, especially in relation to Neanderthals or other hominins that don’t belong to the same species as ...

YOU READ IT here first. The bears are awake. I know what you’re thinking. This is early for bears to emerge from hibernation, and you’re right, but the evidence is clear.

When California’s now-iconic bear flag was introduced in the mid-1800s, there were an estimated 10,000 grizzlies statewide. When that flag was officially ...

The Bear Beneath” covers the untold story of the extinction of California grizzlies due to overhunting and habitat loss, and ...

For nearly two centuries, the true classification of the red panda was a mystery. Believed to be both a bear and a raccoon, ...

A teenager's skeleton lay supine in a shallow pit on a bed of red ocher, his remains adorned with several ivory pendants, ...

Make that "Prehistoric Fight Nights": Science smarties and paleontology pros will stomp, stomp, stomp over to the NHM Commons ...

Discover 10 crazy prehistoric animals that once ruled the world millions of years ago - and they're not dinosaurs ...

The boy’s burial is as striking as his injuries. Hundreds of pierced shells formed a headdress. Ivory pendants and carved antlers accompanied him. A long flint blade—likely a prestige object—rested in ...