Recent evidence has found that caveman (those guys from the GEICO Commercials) may have driven the Cave Bear to extinction through direct competition for food and living arrangements. About 50,000 years ago, caves become choice real estate property all over the European continent for a growing human population. Yes, it seems that these limestone caves which were plentiful throughout Europe  were spacious enough to house a large number of  Captain Caveman’s.  However, cave bears were also fans of these caves, and since humans and bears don’t exactly get along, there was friction between the two. This friction unfortunately resulted in the eventual extinction of the cave bear as loss of home and habitat were too much for these large bears.

I imagine one of the worst jobs of a caveman(which I assume was just about everything), was getting a cave bear out of your future home.  Cave Bears which were about the size of a modern day Kodiak bear, probably did not take well to having a half naked man coming into their cave and forcing them out.  I would hope that the bears took their fair share of cavemen with them before falling to a barrage of spears, stones, or whatever else the caveman had at their disposal. Eventually this unpleasant method of home eviction led to the ultimate extinction of the giant cave bear.

What does this have to do with Moose? Well the cave bear could have possibly had moose on their menu, since there were moose around during the ice age, and mostly because there’s not much news in the world of the moose today.

Caveman killed Cave Bear news article