The method may be harsh, but the yield is precious—the chemical biography of a cave bear. Bocherens, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Tübingen, Germany, is in the vanguard of ...

The Sac Actun cave system in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula ... including the bones of two long-extinct animals from the Ice Age: ...

A Tennessee dog spent three days trapped in a cave with a bear. The hunting dog, named Charlie, became trapped about 40 feet down an “[extremely] narrow” cave shaft in Sevier County ...