Most visitors to Big Bear Lake come from the urban sprawl of Southern California, city dwellers at heart. Few haveRead the Rest…
Bears
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…
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…
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…
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…