By around 11,000 years ago, the giant short-faced bear was extinct. The definitive reasons for its extinction are unknown, but it is one of many megafaunas that died out at the end of the Pleistocene.

The short-faced bear went extinct around 11,000 years, at the end of the Pleistocene, along with most of the large mammals that lived alongside it, including all the large carnivores listed above, as ...

But the dynamite that blasted into limestone for a new road in Greene County unveiled proof that 1,400-pound short-faced bears roamed the Ozarks during the Ice Age, and that they struggled with ...

There's a new titleholder for biggest bear ever found—an ancient South American giant short-faced bear that weighed up to 3,500 pounds.

GRAY, Tenn. — Two partial skulls of an ancient short-faced bear species, a potential ancestor to the biggest bears that ever lived, have been discovered in northeastern Tennessee. The finds ...

The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time The short-faced bears turned out to be remarkably adaptable, undergoing radical changes to meet the demands of two changing continents.

A little more than 14,500 years ago both mammoths and short-faced bears lived in and around a prehistoric conifer forest that existed in what is now Virginia’s Saltville Valley.

Other giant animals of this era that were affected include the giant sloth, woolly rhino and short-faced bear, with humans simply delivering the proverbial deathblow.

Along with saber-toothed cats and enormous short-faced bears, dire wolves were once among the most successful Ice Age predators, roaming widely across North and South America.

Short-faced bear The skeleton of a short-faced bear (Image credit: Courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) Despite its name, this enormous bear didn't actually have a short face.