Brown bear who fended off large male’s attack found dead with her cubs in Spanish cave

After months-long rescue effort, wildlife rangers recover three bodies from bottom of 33-metre crevice

Spanish wildlife rangers have recovered the bodies of two brown bear cubs and their mother, who is thought to have been the same animal filmed three months ago sending a male bear tumbling to his death down a precipice after he attacked.

Rangers and bear experts found the bodies of the female and her cubs at the bottom of a 33-metre crevice inside a cave in the northern Castile and Leon region on Friday.