• It is likely that humans are responsible for the extinction of the cave bear, due to competition for the warm shelter of caves.
  • [Image of a skeleton of of a bear laying on the brown dirt ground.] skeleton of cave bear in Bears Cave, Romania. daggersdawn. wonder why it's called that.
  • [15] Cave bears were comparable in size to, or larger than, the largest modern-day bears, measuring up to 2 m (6.6 ft) in length.
  • Cave bears grew to be between 880 and 2,200 pounds. This is roughly the size of today’s Kodiak or Polar bears, two of the largest species of modern bears.
  • A few hard days work with our amazing team and the bears cave is ready and on site!!! Come and see us by the where the wild things are stage !!
  • ...in France is filled with paintings, engravings and drawings created more than 30 000 years ago, of cave lions, mammoths, rhinos, bison, cave bears and horses.
  • Today, the cave bears’ allure lies in a scientific mission to understand their relationship with ancient humans and to discover why they went extinct.
  • This reflects the views of experts that cave bears may have spent more time in caves than the brown bear, which uses caves only for hibernation.
  • Analysis of cave bear teeth shows that they were mostly herbivores, eating only plants, unlike modern bears who are omnivorous, eating both plants and animals.
  • We here at Bear Cave believe mission statements are in the same category as human resources, saccharin, and re-runs of The Love Boat.