Hibernating bears have a unique ability to stop their bones from degenerating during long periods of inactivity, a finding that is stimulating the search for new treatments for osteoporosis.

A bone found in a cave in Alaska and thought to from a bear is actually from a human, casting new light on the genetics of Native American peoples. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Carden discovered the brown bear’s kneecap while studying bones that had been packed away in boxes in the 1920s, after the bones’ 1903 discovery at Ireland’s Alice and Gwendoline Cave.

(Photo courtesy of Lilly Parker) Archaeologists found brown and polar bear bones – some over 5,000 years old – at two dig sites on Unalaska and Amaknak Islands in the Aleutians during the ...

According to a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, a 130,000-year-old Neanderthal bone carving may be one of the oldest art pieces ever found in Eurasia. In 1953, a bear ...