LEADER 02484nam 2200445 450 001 9910828001703321 005 20221001222823.0 010 $a1-4962-3195-3 010 $a1-4962-3194-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6892447 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6892447 035 $a(CKB)21276352100041 035 $a(OCoLC)1299299162 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_97654 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921276352100041 100 $a20221001d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aChasing the ghost bear $eon the trail of America's lost super beast /$fMike Stark 210 1$aLincoln, Nebraska :$cUniversity of Nebraska Press,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (168 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Stark, Mike Chasing the Ghost Bear Lincoln : Bison Books,c2022 9781496229021 327 $aCover -- 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. 330 $a"Chasing the Ghost Bear explores modern research into one of the legendary but overlooked extinct mammals from the Pleistocene epoch, the short-faced bear. Mammoths and sabertoothed cats receive most of the popular attention, but these wide-ranging bears may have ruled the West prior to the Ice Age extinctions that left grizzlies and bison as the largest mammals of the American West"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aMammals, Fossil 615 0$aMammals, Fossil. 676 $a569 686 $aNAT003000$aNAT015000$2bisacsh 700 $aStark$b Mike$c(Journalist),$01656064 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828001703321 996 $aChasing the ghost bear$94008715 997 $aUNINA