Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1907 — Bones of Prehistoric Bear. [ARTICLE]

Bones of Prehistoric Bear.

Director W. J. Holland of the Carnegie museum at Pittsburg, afte£ a thorough examination of prehistoric animals fouud in a cave near Holidaysburg, Pa, announces that the bones were those of <n Immense bear, unlike any now in existence, and which must have lived 20,000 years ago. The smaller bones found in the cave, and which supposed to be the offspring of the bear, Dr. Holland says are those of the mammoth’s yonng, which the peat bear must have captured in a raid upon the mammoth herds. Heretofore it has been assumed that no animal wis powerful enough to prey upon the mammoth. Besides these bones, there were in the cave the bones of numerous gigantic squirrels and other animals which are now extinct. Another similar care has been found near Greensburg, Pa, and it is to be dynamited.