SOURCE: Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs  (All-Story, 1915)
               Tarzan at the Earth's Core (Blue Book, September 1929)

DESCRIPTION: "He is a mighty animal--a terrible animal. He is but little larger than his cousin of the lesser, lower hills; but he makes up for it in the awfulness of his ferocity and in the length and thickness of his shaggy coat. It was his coat that we were after." (Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs)

NOTES: Burroughs describes two varieties of Cave Bear, the common brown variety living all over Pellucidar and the elephantine white bear living in the mountains.

HISTORY: Burroughs information of ancient bearsseems quite dated today, though they provide some classic opponents as int he Frazetta above cover for Tarzan at the Earth's Core