Humans probably drove cave bears to extinction, ancient DNA study reveals
Cave bears, Ursus spelaeus, must have made magnificent impressions on the Neanderthals and modern humans who encountered them. The animals, burly and broad-shouldered, lumbered all over Europe. True to their name, they slept and wintered in caves, emerging each spring to blink awake in the Pleistocene sunlight. The biggest cave bears grew to 2,000 pounds,