Bearzilla: The biggest bear ever

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Arctotherium angustidens reached a weight of 3500 pounds and was the biggest bear species known to have ever lived on earth.

Bearzilla: The Biggest Bear in History | GeorgiaBeforePeople

Check out the photo on this link of the taxidermic mount of the largest polar bear ever to have been bagged by a human hunter. It's equivalent to the average size of an extinct species, Arctodus simus, that used to range all across North America until about 10,000 years ago.

 

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Arctotherium angustidens reached a weight of 3500 pounds and was the biggest bear species known to have ever lived on earth.

Bearzilla: The Biggest Bear in History | GeorgiaBeforePeople

Check out the photo on this link of the taxidermic mount of the largest polar bear ever to have been bagged by a human hunter. It's equivalent to the average size of an extinct species, Arctodus simus, that used to range all across North America until about 10,000 years ago.

So what that is was the biggest? It ain't around anymore. Polar and Grizzly bears still are and that must say something about their staying power.