GRAY, Tenn. (AP) — A fossil-rich paleontology site in East Tennessee has yielded two more finds. Two specimens of short-faced bears were found within two weeks of each other in October. Blaine ...

The first short-faced bear jaw fragments turned up in 2003, but it wasn't until Gray Fossil Site preparator Jeff Supplee was putting a plaster jacket on a tapir skeleton in 2011 in preparation for ...

The giant short-faced bear was the biggest bear to ever exist. This giant lived during the Pleistocene, the geological time period including the last Ice Age, from around 2.5 million to 11,000 ...

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 ...

1999: Museum of the Middle Appalachians dig, led by Ralph Eshelman, collects a number of herbivore fossils and a giant short-faced bear canine tooth. 2000-present : East Tennessee State University ...

Arctodus pristinus, also known as the lesser short-faced bear, was the largest land carnivore in Florida during the early Pleistocene era (2.5 million to 500,000 years ago) and are closely related ...

The ancient skull will soon be the centerpiece of a planned ice age exhibit that will feature fossils found across Texas, including those from horses, camels, sloths, and the short-faced bear ...