The year was 1963, and Smokey the bear cub needed a home. Having been orphaned and losing his home in a forest fire, Smokey was rescued by UC Davis, according to the city of Folsom.

In a 2023 study of several amber bear figurines from the Baltic Sea area, researchers concluded that the objects are more likely to be Upper Paleolithic in date, a period from 50,000 to 12,000 ...