An Alaska man miraculously survived a brown bear mauling that included several bites to the head, a crushed jaw and a cavernous scalp wound, according to reports. Allen Minish, 61, was alone and ...

"He didn't come back, and so I just lay there and worried about it," he said. Minish, 61, has had his share of bear encounters over the 40 years he's lived in Alaska, but nothing like this.

Initially, these bones were identified as a human arm bone (humerus) and the head of a human femur, thought to belong to an individual who lived more than 20,000 years ago.

An Alaska man was able to bind up his wounds and call 911 after being mauled by a brown bear that bit him multiple times on the head. Allen Minish, 61, was conducting a land survey near Gulkana ...

But the bear shook its head and knocked his hand away. “When he did that, he lunged, grabbed my head, took the first bite, relaxed, and took the second bite, that was stronger,” he told KTUU.

The bone fragments were once thought to be some of the oldest human fossils found in Japan. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...