Skull of a cave bear (Ursus spelaeus), from Louis Figuier's The World Before the Deluge, 1867 American edition. Cave bears were abundant in Europe during the Pleistocene, from about 200,000 to 20,000 years ago.

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Cave Bear Skull, Illustration

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