I think so.
At the end of the last Ice Age (just yesterday in geological time), camels, bisons, mammoths, lions, saber-toothed cats, and packs of wolves roamed the Los Angeles Basin. Had we lived here then, we also would have shared territory with the short-faced bear, Arctodus simus, perhaps the largest and most powerful predator in North America at the time. When fully grown, the male of this snub-nosed, long-legged carnivore was immense, as much as 2 feet taller at the shoulder than the largest grizzly or polar bear and-- at 1,500 to 1,800 pounds-at least 500 pounds heavier than the modern species.
Ive read stories about the "God bears of Kamchatka" and somewhere along the line I saw a show in search of them. The "jist" of it is that some believe that a rare Arctodus simus still exists here and there generally unnoticed amongst the other brown bears of Kamchatka.
"At the end of the last Ice Age (just yesterday in geological time), camels, bisons, mammoths, lions, saber-toothed cats, and packs of wolves roamed the Los Angeles Basin."
They still do, plus some variants of hippos, RINO's DemoncRATs, and of course the Glutenous Michaelis Mooreass.