We're just lucky the short-faced bear isn't still hanging around.
1/3 larger than a polar bear and built to run down plains animals, they were truly scary ass animals.
It's been said that the short-faced bear pretty much single handedly shut down migration from the north into what's now the United States for a few centuries until man figured out a way to actually have a fighting chance against them.
Keep in mind these people were used to fighting and killing Kamchatka and Alaskan grizzlies and had even dealt with polar bears but the short-faced bear shut their ass down for a thousand years or more.
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