Florida spectacled bear

The Florida spectacled bear, Tremarctos floridanus, was an extinct short-faced bear of North America. Its fossils come mostly from the southeastern United States and Mexico and date largely to the Late Pleistocene, and the species disappeared at the end of that epoch. It is also called the Florida cave bear, although it is not a close relative of the Eurasian cave bear, which belongs to a different genus and subfamily. It was the sister species of the living spectacled bear of South America but around twice as large, roughly the build of a large American black bear, with long, robust limbs, and males were about a quarter larger than females. The shape of its skull suggests it may have eaten almost entirely plants. The last reliable radiocarbon date, about 12,700 years ago, comes from a cave system in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.