Cave Bear Hand

Cave Bear hand is replica cast from original specimen. Ursus speleaus Manus. Pleistocene Europe.

* Size: 10.4 inch (26.2cm)
* Museum quality replicas are cast in durable Polyurethane resins.
* Made in USA

The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) was a species of bear that lived in Europe during the Pleistocene and became extinct at the beginning of the Last Glacial Maximum, about 27,500 years ago.

Both the cave bear and the brown bear are thought to be descended from the Plio-Pleistocene Etruscan bear (Ursus etruscus) that lived about 5.3 Mya to 10,000 years ago. The last common ancestor of cave bears and brown bears lived between 1.2 and 1.4 Mya. The immediate precursor of the cave bear was probably Ursus deningeri (Deninger's bear), a species restricted to Pleistocene Europe about 1.8 Mya to 100,000 years ago.

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