I have only looked at the article it has on the "permian Bear tracks" but i may check it later.
It would be quite neat if Bears did live at such a time and where so ancient, but it could very well have been a bear-like Proto-mammal or a proto-mammal with bear like feet (back feet: Plantigrade. Forefeet:semi plantigrade)Or it could have been a early mammal (if that is possible for that period of time) that was bear-like, but I've never seen proof for Permian mammals, let alone for a permian bear species.
Now THere where animals that where not of the bear family, yet where strikingly like a Bear (the horrendous and gigantic
Sarkastodonfor example) but they where not mesozoic animals, but cenozoic.
BTW: what are the "claptrap"? Old Classics?
Edited by LudoRephaim, : No reason given.
"The Nephilim where in the Earth in those days..." Genesis 6:4