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Meet the Giant Bear That Was Twice the Size of Modern-Day Monsters

Forget polar bears. Thegiant short-faced bear (Arctodus simus) was the true heavyweight of North America’s ancient wilderness ...
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Short-faced bears went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene.

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...
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The World's Biggest Bear Ever Recorded Outweighed A Truck

If you thought polar bears were big, just wait until you see this prehistoric giant. In the current age, we have seen massive bears, including the largest bear ever caught in the U.S., which outsized ...
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M 585, "Giant Short-Faced bear (Arctodus Simus Yukonensis) Ramains from Northern Indiana with Soogeographic and Taxonomic Reassessment of the Genus"

https://sova.si.edu/details/SIA.FA99-136#refIDd1e252 ...