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 ...

speak to scenes from an ancient past that is just beyond our reach. SCHUBERT, B., & WALLACE, S. (2009). Late Pleistocene giant short-faced bears, mammoths, and large carcass scavenging in the ...

(Related: "Ancient Bear DNA Mapped—A First for Extinct ... For instance, the South American giant short-faced bear species started huge and became smaller over time, while the North American ...

An ancient, short-faced bear, Arctodus simus, was incredibly big, at a standing height of as many as 12 feet tall. (Credit: Daniel Eskridge/Shutterstock) Today's biggest predators are a fearsome force ...

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. As a result ...

This ancient kangaroo really knew how to chew the scenery. Sthenurine kangaroos, also called "short-faced" kangaroos ... panda's skull differs from other bears. So, it seems that the strange ...

Giant short-faced bears are estimated to have been as ... Based on the behavior of modern bears, researchers also think the ancient bears were most likely solitary animals. However, modern bears ...

speak to scenes from an ancient past that is just beyond our reach. SCHUBERT, B., & WALLACE, S. (2009). Late Pleistocene giant short-faced bears, mammoths, and large carcass scavenging in the ...