Etruscan bear

The Etruscan bear, Ursus etruscus, was an extinct bear of Eurasia and North Africa that lived in the Early Pleistocene, from roughly 2.2 million years ago to about 1.4 to 1.2 million years ago. It is widely regarded as the ancestor of both the living brown bear and the extinct cave bears, and it seems to have arisen from the earlier Ursus minimus. It was about the size of a living brown bear and is told apart from other bears mainly by its teeth, since unlike the cave bears it kept a full set of three front lower premolars. Fossils are known from sites such as Pardines in France, Dmanisi in Georgia, Strmica in Croatia and Jinyuan Cave in China. It was probably omnivorous like modern brown bears, and some populations may have relied heavily on fish.