Scientists interested in fending off bone degradation have looked to one of the animal kingdom's most naturally gifted bone preservationists: the black bear. Researchers at the Pennsylvania State ...

A 3,000-year-old bone unearthed from a cave in southeastern Alaska is not from a bear, as originally thought, but from one of our own — a woman. And new research reveals that her genetics are ...

Scientists may have had a breakthrough that will help solve a decades-old mystery involving ancient bear bones discovered in the Aleutian Islands, in Alaska. Brown and polar bear bones dating back ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neanderthals made parallel marks on this bear bone. A nearly 130,000-year-old bear bone was deliberately marked with cuts and ...

Lilly Parker and Kaylee Tatum at the Museum of the Aleutians helping sort fish, mammal, and bird remains from an archeological midden site in Unalaska. (Photo courtesy of Lilly Parker) Archaeologists ...