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Geographic Insights about Big Bear Lake

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:46:06 +0000

Most visitors to Big Bear Lake come from the urban sprawl of Southern California, city dwellers at heart. Few have a real appreciation of the underlying geology or geography that circumscribes the place they visit for the rest and recreation found at Big Bear. They are exquisitely well positioned to appreciate the built environment, from […]

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Dangerous animals—bears

Greg — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:59:48 +0000

Truth is stranger than fiction. The most recent human fatality caused by a bear took place in the wilds of Ohio. Well, sort of the wilds—just outside of Cleveland. It seems that a young man, Brent Kandra, was tending to a captive bear when the bear attacked and killed him. The bear was owned by […]

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Effects of climate change on polar bears

Greg — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:25:24 +0000

Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are in the news again because of dire predictions for the coming decades on their population numbers. The effects of climate change have been predicted to impact the polar regions first and most dramatically according to most models, and indeed, it is at the poles where we are recording some of […]

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How big was the Giant Short-faced Bear?

Greg — Sat, 15 May 2010 19:38:35 +0000

The character of living things on land changed forever after the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinctions, 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs on land and the marine reptiles in the oceans went extinct, leaving way for mammals and birds to evolve into those niches once held by the “terrible lizards” (dinosaurs) and other giant reptiles. Throughout the Cenozoic, […]

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Denning behavior in the Giant Short-faced Bear

Greg — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:33:55 +0000

One of the most exciting things in paleontology to me is when we can begin to tease apart how extinct animals, animals that humans often never set eyes upon, lived their everyday lives. I am often amazed at how my colleagues can drill deep into questions that at first seem unanswerable; using creative ways to […]

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