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, ...

A male South American giant short-faced bear has just broken the record for world's largest bear, according to a paper in this month's Journal of Paleontology. IE 11 is not supported.

"The short-faced bear is the T-rex of the Ice Age," Forir said. There also is a trio of extinct tortoises embedded in a wall. One fossil is believed to be about a foot long, more than twice the ...

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 ...

This was Arctodus, the short-faced bear. ... The chewed-up mammoth bones, whispers from the fossil record, speak to scenes from an ancient past that is just beyond our reach.

A prehistoric South American giant short-faced bear tipped the scales at up to 3,500 pounds (1,600 kilograms) and towered at least 11 feet (3.4 meters) standing up, according to a new study.

(Update 3/28/21): A paleontologist has now positively identified this fossilized tooth as likely belonging to a Giant Short-Faced Bear. _____. A hobby diver found a rare South Carolina fossil ...