Using genetic data from cave bear bones unearthed at 14 sites in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Spain and Switzerland, scientists think humans and not climate change killed off the bears. (R.

On Wednesday, they determined that the bear “had left the cave and not returned.” With the cave “bear-free,” the stage was set for Charlie’s rescue.

You can skip back to the only known Paleolithic cave painting of a panther, or observe the scratches left by a cave bear over the drawing of a mammoth. Critics, even then.