huge bear tooth

larson1951 · Aug 18, 2009

found this on the surface
it is the biggest bear tooth I ever

Mac232 · Aug 18, 2009

Dang , thats Huge !!

ohio · Aug 18, 2009

I would not want to run into the fella that that tooth belonged to.
Chuck

joshuaream · Aug 18, 2009

That was a monster...

Here is one of mine, from Illinois.

larson1951 · Aug 18, 2009

wow josh yours is like mine but yer tooth has a hole

creek astronaut · Aug 18, 2009

ohio said:
I would not want to run into the fella that that tooth belonged to.
Chuck

I wouldnt either.very cool find larson. :thumbsup:

creek astronaut · Aug 18, 2009

hey larson,some fellow hunters and i are kicking around the idea of getting a group hunt together for a weekend and we were wondering if we could come up to your place with a front end loader

The Grim Reaper · Aug 18, 2009

Nice tooth larson.

Here's a few of my Drilled Teeth including a couple of really large Bears Teeth.

GL · Aug 18, 2009

I have a hog tusk that I found on a site that is split like that.
Great teeth men!

larson1951 · Aug 18, 2009

OK Greg, now all we need is a dump truck

creek astronaut · Aug 18, 2009

larson1951 said:
OK Greg, now all we need is a dump truck

lol.we wont need a dump truck,we will leave the dirt.what we will need is a very large screen,and a pump to pump water through the screen.we can sleep in the barn and we will leave on monday.lol.you are sittng on a great spot :thumbsup:

naturegirl · Aug 18, 2009

Know what I saw? The cracks in larson's hands are the same as in the tooth. no words

ok, WOW!

naturegirl

uniface · Aug 18, 2009

Grizzly ?

Tnmountains · Aug 18, 2009

Man those are great. I would love to find something like that.

Here is a cave bear tooth salvaged and found three miles below Ruby Falls in a cave. The skull was pretty far gone but the saber tooth tiger skull found by it ended up at University of Knoxville. We did not know a skull was worth twenty thousand.This was found twenty years ago while we were doing a mapping survey of the caverns. They have closed it all off now.
I still have yet to preserve it and the fossil forum is helping me with it. The end is gone and am not sure of the age of the bear at death. We estimated it was young. Amazing thing is how far back in the cave this and other fossils were. This is very much like chalk due to the age.

rginn · Aug 19, 2009

Cool find Larson and kinda scary too. Just think, that rascal had several more besides that one.

Neogeo · Aug 19, 2009

W0W!!!!I love youe posts...It's like the best site...Congrats

bravowhiskey · Aug 20, 2009

Is it possible these are teeth of the short faced bear? It was the largest mammalian carnivore/omnivore here in America. I believe it was present in the Paleo-era. That tooth just seems too big for any modern day bear.
Jm2cents.
Very cool tooth. That is a real prize in any book!! :notworthy:

BW

larson1951 · Aug 21, 2009

thanks bravo, do you have any info on the bear you mentioned?

joshuaream · Aug 21, 2009

These are Brown Bear or Grizzly bear teeth.

Brown bears used to be a plains animal, and between fish runs, dead buffalo, berries and what not by the rivers, they had more than enough food to thrive could grow to Kodiak bear sized animals. So yes, you are correct that these teeth are probably too large for any modern bear, but a few hundred years ago they had time/resources to grow old and get fat.

The first trappers and traders that went west noted the large quantities of Grizzly bears throughout Texas, Kansas, Iowa and the Dakotas. There were enough bears that wolves didn't really live on the plains as much as they did in later years. They were easy pickings for early hunters with a rifle. After the bears were gone, wolves were pushed out of the eastern forests, and adapted well to the plains.

bravowhiskey said:
Is it possible these are teeth of the short faced bear? It was the largest mammalian carnivore/omnivore here in America. I believe it was present in the Paleo-era. That tooth just seems too big for any modern day bear.
Jm2cents.
Very cool tooth. That is a real prize in any book!!

BW

bravowhiskey · Aug 21, 2009

Larson,
ARCTODUS SIMUS...Short-Faced or Bulldog bear.. It was here (N. American Continent only) from 800,000 years to extinction aprox. 12,500 years ago. Had long legs and is thought to have been able to reach speeds of 35-40 mph. Stood 5 ft. tall at the shoulders. The largest bear to have existed in the last 20,000 years.

I just did a little research by googling bear teeth and short faced bear teeth.
I looked at pics of Black, Griz, Polar, cave, and short-faced.
The giant tooth you have is a hellatious sized Griz, or maybe a like sized black, as others have stated.
Both canines are nearly identical by just looking at them.
The canines of the short-faced look a little different, having a lesser hook to them, to my untrained eye.
But maybe the difference between upper and lower? Heck I ain't no bear dentist. :laughing9:

I would not want to run into the bear that had those teeth with anything short of a howitzer, personally.

TN, from what I've read the so called "cave bear" was the from other side of the pond. And was referred to as a cave bear mainly because that is where an abundance of their remains have been found. What you have could have been the short-faced or griz, (difficult to tell from what is left, but dna would tell the tale I suppose) they were both around at the same time as the sabre-tooth. What a find that would have been.

I really enjoyed the pics and have learned something despite myself.

BW