The Life of Giant Bears (Credit: Emily L. Lindsey) Arctodus skull (left) Grizzly Bear Skull (Right) Standing at 11 feet on its hind legs, the short-faced bear was the most enormous mammalian carnivore ...

It has been eight years since excavators at the Gray Fossil Site first recovered remains of the short-faced bear (Plionarctos ... it was part of a crushed skull with teeth, and two weeks ...

Three visions of the short-faced bear ... but the vision of the bear as a highly-predaceous carnivore has remained the most popular. A comparison of the skull of Arctodus (top), a black bear ...

There's a new titleholder for the biggest, baddest bear ever found. A prehistoric South American giant short-faced bear tipped the scales at up to 3,500 pounds (1,600 kilograms) and towered at ...