The giant cave bear has been extinct for 25,000 years. Surprising new research, however, has shown that these titanic animals left a genetic legacy that persists today in brown bears.

For decades, Himalayan brown bears have killed livestock and destroyed homes in this rural village. Residents are learning new ways to coexist with their fearsome, but critically endangered neighbors.

Scientists conduct an autopsy of a fossil brown bear with the geological age of 3,460 years, found in the permafrost of northern Yakutia by reindeer herders in 2020, in Yakutsk, Russia February 21 ...