Chasing the ghost bear : on the trail of America's lost super beast / Mike Stark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stark, Mike (Former journalist), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mammals, Fossil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Chasing the Ghost Bear explores modern research into one of the legendary but overlooked extinct mammals from the Pleistocene epoch, the short-faced bear. Mammoths and sabertoothed cats receive most of the popular attention, but these wide-ranging bears may have ruled the West prior to the Ice Age extinctions that left grizzlies and bison as the largest mammals of the American West"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Part 1

1. Into the Dark

2. Skull

3. A Family of Bears

4. Bone Trove

5. Inside

6. Into the Pleistocene

7. Bears in Proximity

8. Bears Are Everywhere

Part 2

9. La Brea

10. Hiding in the Muck

11. Teeth and Bones

12. A Surge of Discovery

Part 3

13. What Happened in Fulton County

14. Real Monsters

15. A Hoosier's Search

16. Dispossessed

Part 4

17. Fitful Arrivals

18. Imagining Arctodus

19. The Great and Far North

20. Lubbock

21. Ancient Hunters

Part 5

22. Endings

23. What Happened?

24. De-extinction

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

About Mike Stark

Illustrations.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496231956

1496231953

9781496231949

1496231945

OCLC:

1299299162