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    Cave bear (redirect from Ursus spelaeus)
    The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) is a prehistoric species of bear that lived in Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene and became extinct about 24,000 years...
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    1922) †Ursus sackdillingensis Heller, 1955 †Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller, 1794 †Ursus vitabilis? Gidley, 1913 The mating systems within the genus Ursus are...
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    needed] U. deningeri is a descendant of Ursus savini and an ancestor of Ursus spelaeus.[citation needed] Ursus deningeri has a combination of primitive...
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    ago. Ursus etruscus appears to have evolved from Ursus minimus and gave rise to the modern brown bear, Ursus arctos, and the extinct cave bear, Ursus spelaeus...
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  • of this species was found. Ursus ingressus was a large cave bear with massive, bulky limbs. It was larger than Ursus spelaeus, which has been estimated...
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    should not be mistaken for the similarly large Eurasian cave bear (Ursus spelaeus). As an ursine, the Eurasian cave bear last shared a common ancestor...
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    Brown bear (redirect from Ursus arctos)
    "Moccasin Joe". The scientific name of the brown bear, Ursus arctos, comes from the Latin ursus, meaning "bear", and the Greek ἄρκτος/arktos, also meaning...
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    Publishing, 2009 Paleobiology Database: Meleto collection Tracking the origins of the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) by mitochondrial DNA sequencing v t e...
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    T. floridanus is not considered a close relative of the cave bear, Ursus spelaeus, which belonged to a different genus. Like modern spectacled bears,...
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    which were discovered on the site in 1983. The cave bear, also known as Ursus spelaeus, is a species of bear which became extinct during the Last Glacial Maximum...
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  • ISBN 978-0-85112-235-9. Christiansen, P. (1999). "What size were Arctodus simus and Ursus spelaeus (Carnivora: Ursidae)?". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 36 (2): 93–102. JSTOR 23735739...
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    prominent in the northern sky. Bear taxon names such as Ursidae and Ursus come from Latin Ursus/Ursa, he-bear/she-bear. The female first name "Ursula", originally...
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    pharaoensis), Chinese elephant (Elephas maximus rubridens), cave bear (Ursus spelaeus), Straight tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) and European lion...
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    brown bear (Ursus arctos "priscus") Gamssulzen cave bear (Ursus ingressus) Pleistocene small cave bear (Ursus rossicus) Cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) Giant polar...
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    in Poland. It is famous for its many excavations of the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus). The first 200 m (660 ft) of the cave was discovered in October 1966...
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    Restoration of Arctotherium bonariense Restoration of Ursus spelaeus (cave bear) Prehistoric art of Ursus spelaeus (cave bear) List of individual bears List of...
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    Borissiak, 1930 †Ursus sackdillingensis Heller, 1955 †Ursus savini (Andrews, 1922) †Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller, 1794 – cave bear Ursus thibetanus (Cuvier...
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    370–376. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2005.12.002. PMID 16442587. Gli orsi spelèi delle Conturines/ Ursus Spelaeus. Altabadia.it. Retrieved on 2011-09-26. v t e...
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  •  138–39. Christiansen, P. (1999). "What size were Arctodus simus and Ursus spelaeus (Carnivora: Ursidae)?". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 36 (#2): 93–102....
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  • resorting far more than previously to the shelter of caves. The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) was the most habitual in its use of caves, and occupied caves before...
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    Urșilor, the "Bears Cave", was home to a large number of cave bears (Ursus spelæus) whose remains were discovered when the cave was discovered in 1975...
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    request at the commune offices) within which were found the bones of Ursus spelaeus. The Bear Hole is made up of various rooms with partly unexplored underground...
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  • fleeing extreme cold further north. Typical species are: Cave bear, Ursus spelaeus European cave lion, Panthera leo spelaea European hippopotamus, Hippopotamus...
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    (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), Giant deer (Megaloceros giganteus), cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) and woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis). Several large mammalian...
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    Evidence suggests that Neanderthals could have worshipped the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) and bear bones have been discovered in several cave sites across Western...
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  • including 33 knapping bones, of which 13 were fashioned from the bones of Ursus spelaeus, which is a record for the Middle Paleolithic.: 47, 53  As of 2020,...
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    exploitation of the environment and cave bear populations. The case of Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller-Heinroth in Amutxate cave (Aralar, Navarra-Spain)". Journal...
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    Taberlet P (December 1994). "Tracking the origins of the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) by mitochondrial DNA sequencing". Proceedings of the National Academy...
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    Mammuthus meridionalis, Mammuthus primigenius, Megatherium, Thalassocnus, Ursus spelaeus, Panthera leo spelaea, Aepyornis and many others. The project of a "Gallery...
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    Intramolecular Stable Carbon Isotope Ratios with Age of the European Cave Bear (Ursus spelaeus)". Oecologia. 127 (4): 495–500. Bibcode:2001Oecol.127..495K. doi:10...
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