cave bear

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

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I have been unable to ascertain in which of his publications he describes and names the cave-bear.
Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution|Alpheus Spring Packard
One of the first things he did was to kill a cave-bear and take the trophies.
The Later Cave-Men|Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
Under the skin of the civilised being there lurks almost always the ancestor, the savage contemporary of the cave-bear.
Social Life in the Insect World|J. H. Fabre
Bones and teeth of the cave-bear were soon found, and several other extinct quadrupeds which Schmerling has enumerated.
The Geological Evidence of The Antiquity of Man|Charles Lyell

They served against the cave-bear, cave-hyena, cave-lion, and would be of great service in the ages yet to come.
A Manual of the Antiquity of Man|J. P. MacLean