cave bear

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cave bear (plural cave bears)

  1. A large extinct species of bear, †Ursus spelaeus.
    • 1851 June 11, The Geelong Advertiser, Victoria, page 1, column 2:
      The more striking phenomena first and most strongly impress the mind, which contrasts for example, the great Cave-Bears of Europe with the actual Brown Bear, the Megatheriods of South America with the small existing sloths, and the gigantic Glyptodons with the Armadillos.
    • 2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 7, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:
      It begs the question: why did the Neanderthals “fail,” since the cave-dwelling hominin, like the cave bear, faltered during the last glaciation, not afterward?

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