Climate change wiped out cave bears 13 millennia earlier than thought
Monday, December 1, 2008 - 12:15
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Enormous cave bears, Ursus spelaeus, that once inhabited a large swathe of Europe, from Spain to the Urals, died out 27,800 years ago, around 13 millennia earlier than was previously believed, scientists have reported.
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