Most visitors to Big Bear Lake come from the urban sprawl of Southern California, city dwellers at heart. Few haveRead the Rest…
Mammals
U. S. Camel Corps
Few people know that the United States had a Camel Corps. About 1836 Major George H. Crosman suggested to theRead the Rest…
What to call the giant cat from the Ice Age?
The Ice Age of the recent past was a fascinating time, full of superlative animals, especially the mammalian megafauna ofRead the Rest…
Mammoth protein designed to be cool
Researchers were recently able to isolate and study woolly mammoth hemoglobin and compare it to the modern African and AsianRead the Rest…
Dangerous animals—bears
Truth is stranger than fiction. The most recent human fatality caused by a bear took place in the wilds ofRead the Rest…
Effects of climate change on polar bears
Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are in the news again because of dire predictions for the coming decades on their populationRead the Rest…
Mountain Lions
They go by many names: puma, mountain lion, mountain cat, catamount, and panther, and scientifically as Puma concolor. The mountainRead the Rest…
How big was the Giant Short-faced Bear?
The character of living things on land changed forever after the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinctions, 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs onRead the Rest…
Mapping the Pratt Mammoth excavation using GPS and basic surveying technology
The discovery of a partial mammoth skeleton in 1999, and its subsequent excavation in 2000, provided an opportunity to implementRead the Rest…
Denning behavior in the Giant Short-faced Bear
One of the most exciting things in paleontology to me is when we can begin to tease apart how extinctRead the Rest…
Polar Bear populations
In an earlier post about the effects of climate change I made the point that there is a lack ofRead the Rest…
Musk ox say no to hunting
As we face the uncertain effects of climate change ourselves in the future it is instructive to look back inRead the Rest…
Giant Short-Faced Bear Reexamined
As the old saying goes, looks can be deceiving. That is the theme of a new paper on the GiantRead the Rest…
Giant Short-Faced Bear: a Northern California Original
In 1878, James D. Richardson explored Potter Creek Cave in Shasta County, California. He found the skull of a bearRead the Rest…
New species are still being uncovered at the Gray Fossil Site
The Gray Fossil Site near Johnson City, Tennessee is full of surprises. The site dates to the late Miocene inRead the Rest…