Etruscan bear

Noun

 * 1) An extinct species of bear, †, endemic to Europe, Asia and North Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene (approximately 5.3 million to 100,000 years ago).
 * 2) * 1968 [Transaction Publishers],, Pleistocene Mammals of Europe, 2017, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 120,
 * The first Etruscan bears were small, about the size of the modern Asiatic black bear; but they tended to increase in size and the terminal forms were as large as a brown bear.

Translations

 * French: ours étrusque
 * Italian: orso etrusco