Wednesday, 2 January 2013

Posting on Giant Bears

Posting on Giant Bears by Rephaim 23:

http://rephaim23.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/giant-bears-historic-and-ancient/

It is interesting that even though the skin of "Vetularctos" has been ruled out as a surviving Shortfaced bear at the Smithsonian (there was a real possibility of DNA contamination from regular brown bear skins stored together with it for several decades), there remain several reports of unusually large, unusually Short-faced bears killed in Alaska back in the earliers, and this article mentions several of those on the end.

Just to give you a sample, look at the reconstructions:



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