Discovering bones in ancient Roman quarry shafts is not unusual—finding a hand-painted dog penis bone, however, is. Bioarchaeologist Ellen Green from the University of Reading in the UK has uncovered ...

The fossilized bones of the so-called Ushikawa Man, once believed to be among the oldest human fossils in Japan, have been identified as the remains of an ancient brown bear. Gen Suwa, an ...

Archaeologists determined that the bear had an infected injury and had been held captive for a significant amount of time. The battered skull of a brown bear discovered near a Roman amphitheater in ...