Bears of the Pleistocene

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(01-23-2018, 12:13 AM)brotherbear Wrote: I now know that a typical grizzly of Pleistocene N. America was basically in the size-range of a grizzly from modern-day Montana or Wyoming. But, over in Pleistocene Europe, there was the much-larger Steppe brown bear, Ursus arctos priscus. Now my question is - how big?  How did this big grizzly compare with Ursus speleaus ingressus or Ursus maritimus tyrannus?

Could be larger than today's Kodiak bear, but slightly smaller than the Southeast Cave bear and Tyrant Polar bear.

BTW, I also believe that Jurassic Fight Club had highly sensationalized/dramatized the fight script between the SF bear and American lion. In contrast, the conflict occurred between the newly arrived Grizzlies and the weakened American lions could have a much higher rate, since their size discrepancy was also much smaller, that could embolden the Grizzlies to steal the carcasses more often from the lions, while the lions wouldn't be so easily to get intimidated by the smaller Grizzlies in comparison of the larger SF bears. Reply