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.

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, ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

Biology Letters The recovered fossils of the short-faced bear Arctotherium wingei and the wolf-like Protocyon troglodytes. There’s good reason why this expedition has resulted in such surprising ...

The short-faced bear, Arctotherium wingei, for example, was erroneously placed in the genus Tremarctos, while the wolf-like Protocyon troglodytes was labeled as a coyote species, Canis latrans.

What was thought to have once belonged to an American Lion may have actually previously been in the mouth of aGiant Short-Faced Bear. Last week, we told you about a fossilized tooth that had been ...

Based on measurements of the fossil's leg bones and equations used to estimate body mass, the researchers say the bear would have stood at least 11 feet tall (3.3 meters) on its hind legs and ...

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 ...