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Bears' Cave (Romanian: Peștera Urșilor, Hungarian: Medve-barlang) is located in the western Apuseni Mountains, on the outskirts of Chișcău village, Bihor County, northwestern Romania. It was discovered in 1975 by Speodava, an amateur spelaeologist group.
In Romania, in a cave called Bears' Cave, 140 cave bear skeletons were discovered in 1983. [3] Cave bear bones are found in several caves in the country of Georgia.
The mountains contain a large number of caves, which attracted both human and animal residents. The Peștera Urșilor, the "Bears Cave", was home to a large number of cave bears (Ursus spelæus) whose remains were discovered when the cave was discovered in 1975. Other caves in the area sheltered early humans.
Pages in category "Caves of Romania" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Bears' Cave; Peștera Vântului; S. Scărișoara Cave; T ...
The remains — buried in layers of soil in the collapsed cave — contained the genetic material of cave bears, hyenas and 13 bones of early humans who died some 45,000 years ago.
The cave features rare minerals, such as mirabilite and anthodites, being second in Romania in value of anthodites, after the Peștera Vântului in the Pădurea Craiului Mountains. [2] In 1986, geologists have found cave bear and brown bear bones in the cave. A few bones were transformed by the Palaeolithic man, who inhabited the cave, in tools.
Romania is home to Europe's largest population of brown bears - up to an estimated 8,000 - outside Russia. On Tuesday, mountain rangers said they found a 19-year-old tourist dead near a popular ...
Scărișoara Cave (Romanian: Peștera Scărișoara, Hungarian: Aranyosfői-jégbarlang), is one of the biggest ice caves in the Apuseni Mountains of Romania, in the western part of the Romanian Carpathians. [1] It is considered a show cave and one of the natural wonders of Romania. It has also been described as a glacier cave. [2]