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More than meets the eye at Royal Alberta exhibit St. Albert Gazette (blog)

With hollow eye sockets staring blindly into space, the yellowed skeleton of a 9,300-year old bear appears to move, a huge bony claw frozen in mid-air.

Standing six-feet at the shoulder and once weighing about 1,000 kilograms, the now extinct giant short-faced bear is the star attraction at the Royal Alberta Museum’s (RAM) new exhibit.

Extremely dedicated to scientific research, she “once spent two of the coldest days” of her life in a Grande Prairie dugout battling -30 C weather while collecting 9,000-year old soil samples that reflected how the landscape had changed through time.

Beaudoin explains that the public is unaware of the amount of scientific study conducted at the museum that is shared with other scholars, institutions and is often instrumental in making policy decisions. And this exhibit pushes the research to the forefront.

The bear, of course, attracts the most attention. At its prime, this lumbering, pug-nosed omnivore was at the top of the food chain, a formidable marauder preying on bison and horses. But a changing climate at the end of Canada’s last glacial period about 10,000 years ago brought about its demise.

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