From the upper Pleistocene (126,000-11,700 years ago), the composite Ursus spelaeus mounted on support stand. One of the great animals of the last Ice Age, the cave bear had a range across most of Europe and into Russia. Its hibernation in caves gives rise to the name, and explains why skeletal remains are so well preserved. Along with the many other megafauna their extinction happened 27,5000 years ago during the rise of humans and a time of great climate change