Chasing the ghost bear : on the trail of America's lost super beast / / Mike Stark

• Autore: Stark Mike (Journalist)
• Pubblicazione: Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 pages)
• Disciplina: 569
• Soggetto topico: Mammals, Fossil
• Classificazione: NAT003000NAT015000
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Chasing the ghost bear
• ISBN: 1-4962-3195-3; 1-4962-3194-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828001703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II