Show bear hunt trails back for millions of years A bear hunt is going on in the office of dr J IV V gidley of the united states national museum at washington doctor Gidley has al ready trailed bears million fe of y years cars further back into the past than has ever been dono done before and discovered that their ancestors did not live the dogs life that faleon biologists hove have heretofore thought tho the fossil teeth of the extinct bear ursus prim evus were previously believed to represent the dental equipment of the ancestors of all modern bears these teeth were also supposed to 6 have characteristics w which h ell I 1 indicated that ursus prime v aus is descended from dogs in his hia examination of the teeth however doctor gidley discovered that instead of being the progenitor of all modern modem bears this thia bruin of years or more ago was merely the forefather of one species of pres ent day bears the east indian sun hear bear |