Cave bear
Ursus spelaeus
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Ursus spelaeus
- Continent
- Europe, Asia
- Group
- Mammal
- Period
- Quaternary (Ice Age)
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Length
- Small (1–3 m)
- Moves
- On four legs
- Feature
- Nothing special
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- It got its name because so many of its bones are found in caves, where it spent the winter.
- Its forehead rose steeply above the snout, so its head looked different from a brown bear's.
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- Irish elk
Megaloceros giganteus
- Woolly rhinoceros
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q188851 · All prehistoric life · All entries