Short faced bear

Relative sizes of the extinct short-faced bear, polar bear, and brown bear.

Short-faced Bear (Arctodus simus) reproduction sculpture - an extinct bear that inhabited North America during the Pleistocene epoch from about 1.8 Mya until 11,000 years ago.

Arctotherium is an extinct genus of South American short-faced bears within Ursidae of the late Pliocene through the end of the Pleistocene.

Design and Illustration for Pleistocene (Ice Age) specimens and fossils, natural history museum signage.

The short-faced bear (Arctodus sp.), standing on two legs, could reach the first floor. This prehistoric giant inhabited North America in the Pleistocene epoch.