Ancient environmental genome reveals a migratory brown bear individual in Early Holocene Scandinavia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 16, April 2026. <br/>SignificanceAncient brown bear genomes from Scandinavia are rare due to a scarce bone fossil record. Using an alternative source of ancient genomic information—lake sediments—we present a 9,600-y-old ancient brown bear environmental genome from …