Ursus- Cave Bears

Hello! again my friend, today I'd like to share with you another animal you may have or not have seen or heard before. The animal I will be talking about today is the cave bear. This species of bear lived in Europe during the Pleistocene. Cave bears, spent more time in caves then the brown bear as the name suggests. Since these bears lived in caves, people have found entire Cave bear skeletons in caves. The bones of many Cave bears were used in WWI for phosphate.Their range spread from almost all across Europe. The Cave bear can be comparable in size to larger modern-day bears. Male Cave bears were giants compared to female  Cave bears with Males weighing about a 1000 pounds and females only weighing about 500 pounds. The Cave Bears diet is uncertain as there is many evidence of them possibly being herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores. The death of Cave bears were usually in hibernation. The Cave bear went extinct 27,800 years ago due to several factors, such as from humans over hunting them.

Fun Fact

• The bones of the Cave bear were once thought to be the bones of mythical creatures such as unicorns and dragons.

Source: http://www.wikipedia.org/

Procoptodon - The Giant short-faced kangaroo

Hello, I'd like to share with you an animal you may have or not have heard of before! Proctodon which was a genus of giant short-faced kangaroos that used to live in Australia back in the Pleisocene epoch. They don't call these type of kangaroos giant for nothing. The giant short faced-kangaroo has a height of 6.6 ft & weighs over 500 pounds! That's even taller and heavier than the average person! The giant short-faced kangaroos have short faces & forward-pointing eyes. Their feet consist of a single toe which seem to have a similar appearance to a horses foot. With these feet they moved quickly through open forests & plains in Australia to find and eat grass & leaves. Their front paws are quite unusual as they have two extra-long fingers with large claws. They most likely have these unusual paws, so they can grab branches to bring leaves to eating distance of their mouth. Unfortunately, the genus Proctodon went extinct at least 50,000 years ago. It is possible they could've stayed longer, because there is evidence of this. The reason of them going extinct is usually related to human activities, but it is uncertain if we actually caused an end to them.

   Fun Fact

•  There is a full-sized giant short-faced kangaroo replica, on display with native Australians at the Australian Museum in Sydney.   

 

Source: http://www.wikipedia.org/

 

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Welcome, to my blog Awesome & Neat animals! At this blog I will blog about animals that you may or not have seen before, so if your not an animal lover then you're not going to like my blog posts. The animals I will talk about in my blog will range from the beginning of life on Earth to present day.