American giant short-faced bear has found it to be the biggest bear ever discovered. Paleontologists Blaine Schubert and Leopoldo Soibelzon reexamined the skeleton which had been found in Argentina in 1935.They measured the bear's upper arm bone, which revealed the size of the rest of the bear's body. "It just blew my mind how big it was," Schubert told National Geographic. The study, which appears in the January issue of the Journal of Paleontology, also found that the bear was an old male who had been injured multiple times.
The South American giant short-faced bear has become smaller over time. Schubert suggests the bear adapted with the evolution of meat-eaters.
World's Biggest Bear : South American Giant Short-Faced Bear
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