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Cave Bears (Ursus Spelaeus sensu lato) of the Urals

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The paper summarizes results of eighty years of studies of large (Ursus (Spelaearctos) kanivetz Vereshchagin, 1973) and small (Ursus (Spelaearctos) ex gr. savini–rossicus) cave bears in the Urals, including their biology, distribution, occurrence and extinction times, taxonomy and phylogeny, as well as interaction with humans.

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The authors are grateful to the reviewers for their comments and recommendations, which made it possible to improve the quality of the publication and to discuss a number of controversial issues. We are grateful to the Museum of the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the information provided.

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The study was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research in the framework of the scientific project no. 20-14-50162, and financial support from the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 20-74-00041.

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Gimranov, D.O., Kosintsev, P.A. Cave Bears (Ursus Spelaeus sensu lato) of the Urals. Paleontol. J. 56, 97–105 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030122010063

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