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2012年3月14日—Whytheshortface?...Thegiantshort-facedbear,whichlivedinNorthAmericaduringtheIceAge,wasmorethan11feettallstandingupright.
Fossils from an Ice Age giant short-faced bear are now on display at the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History.
A southwest Iowa farmer discovered the bones of the bear on his farm in 2008 and loaned them to the UI. After a time-consuming process of analysis and verification, UI scientists have now confirmed that the find is the first verified short-faced bear specimen found in the state, say Holmes Semken, UI professor emeritus of geoscience, and Trina Roberts, associate director of the UI Museum of Natural History.
Joe Walker of Brayton made the discovery in the back dirt of a USDA flood control dam along Troublesome Creek, near Atlantic.
“The bone was unusually large and my first thought was that it could be from something extinct,” Walker says. He had the bone identified by U.S. Department of Agriculture archaeologist Richard Rogers of Des Moines, ...
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體重:450~1350㎏;體長:210~350㎝;尾長:50~60㎝;肩高:260~280㎝。頭部、肩部及前腳均覆有捲屈之鬃毛。其臀部狹窄,雄...