cave bear

noun

an extinct bear, Ursus spelaeus, that lived in caves in Europe during the Pleistocene Epoch.

Once we found some bones and teeth, which turned out to be from ancient cave bears.

This period also had a cave lion, a cave bear, and a cave hyna.

This also contains bones of the cave bear, deposited when there was less access of water to the cavern.

They were associated with the bones of the reindeer, horse and bison, as well as with those of the great cave bear.

They went up-stream, although it might lead to the very lair of the cave bear, because there was no other way to go.

The cave bear was not lying quite in the same attitude, because the hyænas had been busy, and in one place his ribs showed white.

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