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Short-Faced Bear

The Short-faced bear (Arctodus simus) was a huge predator weighing over 1136kg, standing as tall as 4m on its hind legs and 2m tall on all fours. Its massive jaws could produce about a tonne of bite pressure. It bcame extinct over 10,000 years ago. The short-faced bear was the largest mammalian land predators ever.

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