Nevertheless, the short-faced bear would have been a towering, frightening beast. Although the bears in ice age North America were the biggest and most powerful carnivores, they had some stiff ...

Polar bears are one of the largest mammals on land; only the African elephant can tower over the polar bear in this corner of ...

The big move is driven by the return of the sea ice they need to hunt, but getting to seal town involves going through the ...

They also stand in three decidedly different camps regarding why America's rich complement of big animals went extinct quite suddenly at the end of the Ice Age ... deer and bear and elk," Haynes ...