The bones were adapted to support life in the aquatic environment

and body armor points to a low-mobility lifestyle and passive defensive strategies against contemporary predators such as Majungasaurus

which thrived in the hot

It weighed about 2 to 3 tons

It is thought that they could have laid eggs in the sand like today's turtles or they could have given birth to their young in the sea

Arctodus simus Scale:1:35 The bones were adapted toArctodus simus , commonly known as the short faced bear, was one of the largest terrestrial carnivores of the Pleistocene of North America. This extinct member of the subfamily Tremarctinae inhabited a wide range of ecosystems, from the central plains to the northern forests of the continent, between approximately 800,000 and 11,000 years before present. Its highly specialized morphology has been the subject of intense debate surrounding its trophic