02484nam 2200445 450 991082800170332120221001222823.01-4962-3195-31-4962-3194-5(MiAaPQ)EBC6892447(Au-PeEL)EBL6892447(CKB)21276352100041(OCoLC)1299299162(MdBmJHUP)musev2_97654(EXLCZ)992127635210004120221001d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierChasing the ghost bear on the trail of America's lost super beast /Mike StarkLincoln, Nebraska :University of Nebraska Press,[2022]©20221 online resource (168 pages)Print version: Stark, Mike Chasing the Ghost Bear Lincoln : Bison Books,c2022 9781496229021 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."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.Mammals, FossilMammals, Fossil.569NAT003000NAT015000bisacshStark Mike(Journalist),1656064MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828001703321Chasing the ghost bear4008715UNINA