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, ...

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.

Mammoths, woolly rhino and short-faced bear went extinct from global warming, says university report. By Sean Martin Published ...

This was Arctodus, the short-faced bear. The carnivore snuffled the air as it approached the fallen behemoth. ... extinct carnivores lived in what is now western Virginia only ~14,500 years ago.

And yet, for reasons we don’t quite understand, their adaptability wasn’t enough to keep them from going extinct. The first short-faced bears weren’t big, scary giants.

Fragments of skull of the short-faced bear, ... Human Evolution 140,000 year old bones of our ancient ancestors found on sea floor, revealing secrets of extinct human species .

The previous heavyweight was a North American giant short-faced bear—a related extinct species—that weighed up to 2,500 pounds (1,134 kilograms).

"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 ...