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, ...

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 ...

He developed the mural’s short-faced bear (Arctodus simus) first as an articulated skeleton (top left), individually drawing and measuring its bones from a specimen in the Field Museum.

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 ...