Cave bear (ursus spelaeus)

Hello friends !, in my next sculpture I introduce it again in the prehistoric fauna with an animal that shared ecosystem with cave lion and our ancestors at that time.

The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) was a species of bear that lived in Europe during the Pleistocene and became extinct about 24,000 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum.

This bear Was the head with a more prominent and solid jaw than the brown bear and more prominent eyebrows.This species, along the cave lion was well represented by our ancestors in caves.
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Differences between the skeleton of a brown bear and a cave bear ...
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Here I show you some pictures of the process. I hope you like it !
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The figure is made 1:20 scale and in a posture of defense-attack ...
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Final photos of the finished figure, and the paint job once completed ...
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Finally some photos of a hypothetical encounter between two of the most powerful Pleistocene animals ...
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Wonderful bear model!!!!!

Wonderful work Miguel! Congratulations! I think this is also great scene

Fantastic

What a magnificent, wonderful creature, and you made the model look so real

AHHHHHHHHHH, pefect. Thank you soooo much

What are you doing, Miguel? It is fantastic, it looks almost alive, dancing to convince the cave lion that they could be friends. Excellent work, no limits to your talent!

Indeed the bear and the lion are fabulous. Great job!

Wonderful! I love the pose you've picked, and the paint job is really great.

(I especially love bears - Bjarki means 'little bear' - and am always excited to see another bear model. Hope you'll make more!)

Thank you Andreas, Anna, Christoph, Roger (Yes, in one of the photos it appears to be dancing in front of the lion to hypnotize ), Donny and "little bear ". Thank you for your kind words

Wonderful cave bear and lion!!!!

It is fantastic Miguel. As I said to you many times, I really love your pleistocene models!!!

Oh wow, that sure is a gorgeous model - again! Very well done, you sure are an inspiration to many of us here

Thank you Taos, Mgarat and Julie ! .Your words really are an impulse to continue modeling figures

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Poor little gazelle...

Impressive, I think the poor gazelle won't serve as a "postre" to these massive beasts. I really expect a coreographic fight between all these bears and gazelle will find a way to keep alive.

Great (in every senses), Miguel! I like specially the backward angle: it's full of volume, weight and colour... Congratulations!

Thank you very much Roger and David !!

Roger wrote:

Impressive, I think the poor gazelle won't serve as a "postre" to these massive beasts. I really expect a coreographic fight  between all these bears and gazelle will find a way to keep alive.

Roger, you are right that the gazelle would be a little snack for both monster around and sure would fight between them like a Komodo dragons before a meal