Prehistoric Cave Bear

The extinct cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) had a wider heads than today’s bears and powerful shoulders and forelimbs. Males weighed up to 1,500 pounds, considerably more than the largest modern grizzlies.

Description Ursus spelaeus Point commission for SamBiswas95

Cave bear is an extinct species of bear that lived in Eurasia in the middle and late Pleistocene and got extinct approximately 15,000 years ago.

Smaller than the short-faced bear. The predator that feeds almost exclusively on plants was probably an object of worship of primitive people.

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Cave Bear Rendering

In prehistoric times, when cavemen roamed, one step into the wrong cavern could mean death. In what is now Europe, many caves were home to a mammoth bear-bigger than any alive today. The cave bear didn't eat much meat, but its killer jaws and claws could have ended the life of intruders with a...