Being a giant predator during the Pleistocene — from around 2.6 million years to about 11,000 years ago — was no easy feat. From short-faced bears to Ice Age coyotes, American cheetahs, dire wolves, ...

The giant short-faced bear was the biggest bear to ever exist. This giant lived during the Pleistocene, the geological time period including the last Ice Age, from around 2.5 million to 11,000 ...

It was not really a “short-faced” bear at all. Three restorations of Arctodus , revealing the skeletal, muscular, and external anatomy. By Oscar San-Isidro, from Figueirido et al., 2010 ...

The short-faced bear uncovered at the site is an ancestor of the spectacled bear of South America, Schubert said. The animals were not nearly as large as today’s bears.

The stench emanating from the putrefying mammoth carcass carried for miles. Though kept out of the sun by the long shadows of the surrounding pine trees, the corpse reeked as the flesh, sinew, and ...

A prehistoric South American giant short-faced bear tipped the scales at up to 3,500 pounds (1,600 kilograms) and towered at least 11 feet (3.4 meters) standing up, according to a new study.

A male South American giant short-faced bear has just broken the record for world's largest bear, according to a paper in this month's Journal of Paleontology. IE 11 is not supported.

"The short-faced bear is the T-rex of the Ice Age," Forir said. There also is a trio of extinct tortoises embedded in a wall. One fossil is believed to be about a foot long, more than twice the ...

But these ancient beasts, the short-faced bear (Arctotherium wingei) and the wolf-like Protocyon troglodytes, fell to their deaths in a deep cave, which was flooded soon after.

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 ...

Three visions of the short-faced bear: Arctodus as a predator, a scavenger, and an herbivore. By Oscar San-Isidro, from Figueirido et al., 2010. Arctodus simus, the short-faced bear, was part of ...