Heavy metal pollution is usually associated with modern, large-scale industrialisation. However, humans have processed metals ...

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

Bear tracks are not uncommon in the ... suggest that in both cases they belong to cave bears, a species that went extinct about 28,000 years ago, rather than brown bears. "Unfortunately, some ...

Archaeologists discovered ancient Roman inscriptions and a 1,900-year-old coin wedged between rock formations while exploring ...

Cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) were a very large type of bear that formed the sister lineage of living brown bears and polar bears. These animals lived in Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene epoch and ...

In the century that followed, the snakehead was caught and identified a handful of times, sometimes mistaken for other ...

Schubert said seven bones belonging to the short-faced bear and the bones of one — possibly two ... Next up, read about the extinct cave lion species scientists are trying to bring back to life. Then, ...

See new species →Diver spots 'large'-eyed sea creature lurking in cave — and discovers new species ... red pandas and the Himalayan black bear, researchers said. “Globally, freshwater ...