During the early 2000s, ancient bear bones belonging to brown bears and polar bears were found in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, more specifically, the Unalaska and Amaknak Islands. However ...

Arctolatry, or bear cults, may have been in existence since the Paleolithic period. Bear bones and skulls have been found arranged in caves, which may indicate some sort of ceremonial rite.

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from a prehistoric bear, a new analysis shows. Not only that, the items are ...