Cave Bear Cub Skull

Cave Bear skull replica is cast from original specimen. Ursus spelaeus. European carnivore of the Pleistocene.

* Size: 8.3 inch x 5.5 inch x 4.1 inch (21cm x 14cm x 10cm)
* Museum quality replicas are cast in durable Polyurethane resins.
* Made in USA

The Cave Bear was a species of bear which lived in Europe during the Pleistocene and became extinct at the end of the last ice age about 20,000 years ago.

Both the cave bear and the brown bear are thought to be descended from the Plio-Pleistocene Etruscan bear (Ursus etruscus) that lived about 5.3 Mya to 10,000 years ago. The last common ancestor of cave bears and brown bears lived between 1.2 and 1.4 Mya. The immediate precursor of the cave bear was probably Ursus deningeri (Deninger's bear), a species restricted to Pleistocene Europe about 1.8 Mya to 100,000 years ago.

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