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Giant Short-Faced Bear Reexamined

Greg — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:44:49 +0000

As the old saying goes, looks can be deceiving. That is the theme of a new paper on the Giant Short-Faced Bear (GSFB), Arctodus simus, recently published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Figueirido et al., 2010). We have explored this beast in other posts (see below), and will no doubt do so in the […]

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Giant Short-Faced Bear: a Northern California Original

Greg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:55:59 +0000

In 1878, James D. Richardson explored Potter Creek Cave in Shasta County, California. He found the skull of a bear beneath several inches of cave dirt, and he sent the specimen to Edward D. Cope, who determined that it was the type specimen for a new species of American “cave bear” (Cope, 1879). When a […]

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