GRAY, Tenn. — Two partial skulls of an ancient short-faced bear species, a potential ancestor to the biggest bears that ever lived, have been discovered in northeastern Tennessee. The finds ...

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.

The short-faced bear, a hypercarnivore, also ate plants depending on their availability. The work offers key insights into the evolution of the carnivore niches during the Ice Age. The team of ...

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 ...