First it was the dodo – now scientists want to resurrect the giant bear and jumbo beaver
as well as competition from humans and brown bears, experts believe. The giant beaver, castoroides, was an enormous rodent ...
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Rare, Late Pleistocene Human Remains in Japan Turn Out to be Bear Bones
After the bones were discovered in a Toyohashi quarry in 1957 and 1959, they were reported to represent rare examples of Late Pleistocene human remains ... but a 20,000-year-old bear and reported ...
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Cave Bear Ecology and Evolution in the Late Pleistocene
The cave bear, scientifically known as Ursus spelaeus, is one of the most well-documented megafaunal mammals from the Late Pleistocene era. These bears roamed across Europe and parts of Asia ...
‘Oldest human remains’ turn out to be bones of prehistoric bear
Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from a prehistoric bear, a new analysis shows.
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Fossil footprints study is the first to track cave bears in the Iberian Peninsula
Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Footprints in Honseca Cave, Spain, attributed to cave bears from the Late Pleistocene, have been systematically studied for the first time in the Iberian ...