r/worldnews - Extinct Cave Bear DNA Found in Living Bears - Discovery is 1st of its kind outside human lineage. After roaming for over 100,000 yrs, cave bears died out some 24,000 yrs ago. But its DNA lives on in brown bears. “It forces us to think on a philosophical level what we mean by species extinction.”

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