simply it diddn't but it was the top predator near the end of the ice age as Sabre tooths came extinct
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The biggest short faced bears were Agriotherium Africanum at 650 kg, Arctodus Simus at 700 - 800 kg( large males could weigh a tonne) and Arctotherium angustidens at 1000 kg, eventhough large males could get to 1500 kg.
I couldn't find the answer anywhere Spectacled bears are NOT extinct. They are Threatened and need to be protected. For more information with photos and more, go to: http://www.squidoo.com/spectacled-bears
Frozen extinct species living in only certain time periods in the same parts of the world. For example, mammoths, saber tooths, short-faced bear, peccaries, etc.
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Stone age people might have faced challenges such as food scarcity, harsh environmental conditions, and conflicts with other tribes. They also had to develop tools and techniques for hunting, gathering, and shelter-building to survive in their prehistoric world.
Obviously they survived! What do you actually mean? They had a long struggle, kept warm,snuggled up in firs with each other, slept with the dogs, ate meat, built fires, grunted at each other and waited for the SPRING AGE!
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Smarter than the A-ver-AGE bear.
the can grow to be 100yrs in age
It would depend on the species and age of the bear.
the short faced bear or arctodus simus is an extinct species of bear, it was the largest land predator of it's time, the largest bear known to science and lived in the americas. estimates on it's size range from 1300 pounds to as much as a ton, on all fours it was six feet high at the shoulders and may have been 12 feet high when standing upright. though larger than it's contemporay the grizzly bear, the short faced bear had a more graceful build with longer limbs in proportion to it's body, it's feet pointed forward as opposed to the pigeon toed gait and stance of the brown bear and it may have been adapted to a more active predatorial existence. it is thought to have been a purely carnivorous animal as opposed to it's omnivorous brown bear cousin. the short faced bear also called the bulldog faced bear had a much shorter face than other bears, structured more like a feline's. it's jaw muscles were exceptionally powerful and it may have regularly crushed the bones of it's prey to get at the nutrient and fat rich marrow. predator versus scavenger is a popular debate among experts, with some saying that it was adapted to run down it's prey and was therefore an active hunter, others say that the shear size of the beast would have limited it to bullying other predators off their kills. it probably did both. the mass extinction of megafauna at the end of the last ice-age resulting in loss of food resourse, competition with it's more adaptable brown bear cousins, and contention with humans probably lead to the short faced bear's extinction. it's closest living relative is the spectacled bears.