12" Cave Bear Jaw (with stand) e5490dc821dbf152b8d50262e9083d86 Each strand measures 8 inches

Each strand measures 8 inches

(about 20 to 180 million years ago)

alongside juveniles

per square inch

and are often found by prospectors searching for gold nuggets and meteorites with metal detectors

12" Cave Bear Jaw (with stand) e5490dc821dbf152b8d50262e9083d86 Each strand measures 8 inchesThe Cave Bear, or "Ursus spelaeus," was a massive omnivore that lived in Europe during the Pleistocene period and became extinct around 28,000 years ago. This enormous animal is thought to be a relative to todays brown bear but it was significantly larger. Adult males averaged half a ton in weight, and when standing on their hind legs they were up to 10 feet tall! That would put them comparably in size to the largest of modern day Kodiak and Polar