How to Use cave bear in a Sentence

cave bear

noun

• Then, a few months later, another team published the genome of a cave bear from Spain.
  — Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2013
• Most cave bear remains discovered so far have been odd bones and skulls.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2020
• While animals like wooly mammoths and cave bears wandered the lands, massive megalodon sharks and sea sloths took to the seas.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
• Alongside the human remains were bladelike tools and pendants made from cave bear teeth.
  — Popular Science, 13 May 2020
• Reindeer herders on the Siberian island of Bolshoy Lyakhovsky recently stumbled across the frozen carcass of a cave bear.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2020
• Still, the damage found on the small cave bear skull, if confirmed, might the first evidence of humans hunting a small cave bear, Gizmodo reports.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2021
• Some species of bears, including the cave bear, were likely hunted to extinction; others live mainly in cages.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Miners in Germany’s Neander Valley found fossils thought to belong to a cave bear.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2015
• Among the artifacts the researchers excavated from Bacho Kiro were pendants made from cave bear teeth.
  — Charles Choi, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2020
• If cave bears didn’t somehow make them, the circles’ age suggests yet more Neanderthal handiwork.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 5 Dec. 2019
• In fact, most cave bear fossils have been found inside caves, and paleontologists think these bears probably lived in the caves full-time, rather than just popping in for a quick four-month nap.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2020
• Melting ice and thawing permafrost have already revealed a colony of mummified penguins, an Ice Age cave bear, ancient cave lion cubs and an extinct baby horse.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2020
• Humans played a much bigger role than previously thought in driving the cave bear to extinction, according to new evidence revealed last week.
  — Fox News, 20 Aug. 2019
• Discovered in the uppermost level at the site, the talons and foot bone were found in the same sedimentary layer as many cave bear bones, Neandertal tools, a fragmentary child’s cranium and at least one hearth.
  — David W. Frayer, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
• Direct evidence of prehistoric clothing is hard to find, but archaeologists in Germany discovered cut marks on a cave bear paw that suggest the animals were skinned for their fur.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Jan. 2023
• The cave bear carcass presents several opportunities for new research into Ice Age ecosystems.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2020
• There are trillions of fragments of DNA in a teaspoon of dirt, mostly material from other mammals, including woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceroses, cave bears and cave hyenas.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 Apr. 2017
• One perhaps overzealous physician posthumously diagnosed a Cuban crocodile, a Canary Island monk seal, and a prehistoric German cave bear.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 Dec. 2021
• During Siberian cave excavation, Russian paleontologists discovered the skull of a now-extinct small cave bear.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2021
• In order to complete their work, the scientists analyzed mitochondrial DNA extracted from cave bear bones that were collected across several European countries.
  — Fox News, 20 Aug. 2019
• This also means that cave bears thrived throughout a number of earlier periods when temperatures significantly decreased.
  — Tim Vernimmen, National Geographic, 15 Aug. 2019

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