Etruscan bears
Etruscan bears is the plural of Etruscan bear.
Meaning of Etruscan bear
Noun
Etruscan bear (plural Etruscan bears)
- An extinct species of bear, †Ursus etruscus, endemic to Europe, Asia and North Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene (approximately 5.3 million to 100,000 years ago).
- 1968 [Transaction Publishers], Björn Kurtén, Pleistocene Mammals of Europe, 2017, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 120,
The first Etruscan bears were small, about the size of the modern Asiatic black bear; but they tended to increase in size and the terminal forms were as large as a brown bear.
- 1968 [Transaction Publishers], Björn Kurtén, Pleistocene Mammals of Europe, 2017, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 120,
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- What is Etruscan bears the plural of?
- Etruscan bears is the plural of Etruscan bear.
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