TY - BOOK AU - Stark,Mike TI - Chasing the ghost bear: on the trail of America's lost super beast SN - 9781496229021 PY - 2022///] CY - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press KW - Giant short-faced bear KW - America KW - Mammals, Fossil KW - Trace fossils N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - "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"-- ER -