Sentence examples for extinct bears from inspiring English sources

We detected >75 specimens of living and extinct bears affected with dental caries lesions.

Mitochondrial DNA analysis of the evolution and genetic diversity of ancient and extinct bears (University of Adelaide, 2010).

Rather like an ecologist reintroducing locally extinct bears and wildcats, Tolkien borrowed from the Scandinavian and other European myths and invented his own natural spirits, such as the treelike Ents, to repopulate England's imagination.

North Africans in Europe, Hispanics in Thomas's once German-dominated home town of LaBarre, Wisconsin, Slovenian bears imported to replace the extinct bears of the Pyrenees, solitary Englishmen in remotest France, like Thomas's hundred-and-six-year-old neighbor St. John Granger — all are aliens.

The animal has few predators, as Japanese wolves have become extinct; bears may prey on the serow.

Sequences from extinct bears represent the third and fourth Pleistocene species for which complete mitochondrial genomes have been sequenced.

Among the 350 exhibits was the 200,000-year-old jaw of an extinct bear (ursus deningeri) found at Darband cave in Roudbar, Gilan province, in northern Iran by the Caspian sea.

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Our study represents the first comprehensive sampling of mtDNAs for recent bears, including all living and two recently extinct bear species.

For the two extinct bear species, each position of the mtDNA was amplified at least twice from independent primary amplifications to ensure the authenticity of the sequence [ 13].

We present a fully resolved phylogeny for ursids based on ten complete mitochondrial genome sequences from all eight living and two recently extinct bear species, the European cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) and the American giant short-faced bear (Arctodus simus).