Fragments of skull of the short-faced bear, a potential ancestor to the largest bears that ever lived, has been discovered at a fossil site in Tennessee. Skip to main content.

The short-faced bear uncovered at the site is an ancestor of the spectacled bear of South America, Schubert said. The animals were not nearly as large as today’s bears.

Being a giant predator during the Pleistocene — from around 2.6 million years to about 11,000 years ago — was no easy feat. From short-faced bears to Ice Age coyotes, American cheetahs, dire wolves, ...

It has been eight years since excavators at the Gray Fossil Site first recovered remains of the short-faced bear (Plionarctos). The genus Plionarctos was initially discovered by East Tennessee State ...

Demythologizing Arctodus simus, the ‘Short-Faced’ long-legged and predaceous bear that never was Journal of Verterbrate Paleontology, 30 (1), 262-275 : 10.1080/02724630903416027 ...

HOT SPRINGS | The Mammoth Site confirmed the discovery of remains from a second giant short-faced bear in its dig site last week.

Three visions of the short-faced bear: Arctodus as a predator, a scavenger, and an herbivore. By Oscar San-Isidro, from Figueirido et al., 2010. Arctodus simus, the short-faced bear, was part of ...