1. Ice Age cave bear discovered intact

Reindeer herders in Russia’s Lyakhovsky Islands in the Arctic have found the complete carcass of an Ice Age cave bear in melting permafrost. The remains have yet to be dated properly, but preliminary estimates put them at somewhere between 22,000 and 39,500 years old...

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