Etruscan bear

English thumb|A fossilized Etruscan bear skull Noun An extinct species of bear, †Ursus etruscus species, endemic to Europe, Asia and North Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene (approximately 5.3 million to 100,000 years ago). 1968 [Transaction Publishers], Björn Kurtén, Pleistocene Mammals of Europe, 2017, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 120, The first Etruscan bears were small, about the size of the modern Asiatic black bear; but they tended to increase in size and the terminal forms were as large as a brown bear. en 2012 Andrew E. Derocher Polar Bears w:Johns Hopkins University Press https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aouJPNt1P4gC&pg=PA36&dq=%22Etruscan+bear%22%7C%22Etruscan+bears%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj8n9vCss71AhU0kFwKHbOLC7MQ6AF6BAglEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Etruscan%20bear%22%7C%22Etruscan%20bears%22&f=false 36 About 2.5 million years ago the Auvergne bear gave rise to the Etruscan bear. Fossil remains from Spain, France, Italy, and China suggest that Etruscan bears were about the size of modern American black bears and were gradually increasing in size.The Etruscan bear, about 2 million years ago, gave us the grizzly bear. en 2018 w:Tim Flannery; Luigi Boitani Europe: A Natural History Text Publishing https://books.google.com.au/books?id=S99kDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA140&dq=%22Etruscan+bear%22%7C%22Etruscan+bears%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj8n9vCss71AhU0kFwKHbOLC7MQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Etruscan%20bear%22%7C%22Etruscan%20bears%22&f=false 140 It[the Auvergne bear] appears to have given rise to the Etruscan bear (Ursus etruscus), which is so similar to the Asian black bear that some researchers consider them to be one and the same. In a fairytalelike twist, the Etruscan bear gave rise to Europe's three bears of yore: the brown bear, the cave bear and the polar bear. Translations extinct species of bear French: fr ours étrusque m Italian: it orso etrusco m References Ursus etruscus 1 366707 Ursus etruscus en Ursids