Summary ⁴

The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) was a species of bear that lived in Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene and became extinct about 24,000 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum.

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4. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursus_spelaeus

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