Huge Cave Bears: When and Why They Disappeared

Live Science ^ | Nov. 25, 2008 | LiveScience Staff

[decimon]

I think I'd have left them alone, vegetarian or not.

[decimon]

Big bear ping.

[nevergore]

Is this it?

[smokingfrog]

global warming did them in

[decimon]

Is this it?

No, but I wouldn't want to meet that in a cave either.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

If they were vegetarian, then why did they have big fangs and claws? Just sayin’...

[Bubba_Leroy]

Bush's fault. Bush and those damned SUVs.

Women and minorities hardest hit.

[gourmand]

I’ll second that thought, decimom!

[Sacajaweau]

Claws for ripping dandelions....

From another viewpoint...Defense?? Gives them the ability to climb trees without wearing those special shoes.

What can take down a bear?

Maybe half these species died out becuase of inbreeding?? Or "they killed their own" or only one of a litter of three survived...not enough to sustain a species.

Too many males...infighting...??

[Thrownatbirth]

Eurosocialism killed their urge to reproduce.

[Mogollon]

Bears are omnivores like us.

[FrogMom]

Ping.

[PzLdr]

If cave bear = short faced bear, they were pure carnivores. Being omnivorous would have been an argument for the bears’ survival, since the leading theory for their extinction was the disappearance of herbivorous mega fauna.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Blame it on Sarah Palin.

[wardaddy]

Her fault I'm telling ya

[denydenydeny]

"A fundamental question to be answered by future research is: why did the brown bear survive to the present day, while the cave bear did not?"

Vegetarianism kills. :-)

[SunkenCiv]

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[null and void]

Her? Kill a bear? Not bloody likely...

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[ZULU]

Cave Bear and SHort faced bear were different species from different lineages. See Arctodus simus for Short Faced or Bulldog Bear. Very different animal and probably a lot more fightening than Cave bears.