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    Ursus maritimus tyrannus (lit. 'tyrant maritime bear') is a controversial extinct subspecies of polar bear. The subspecies of polar bear was named by...
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    Polar bear (redirect from Ursus maritimus)
    name Ursus maritimus is Latin for 'sea bear'. Carl Linnaeus classified the polar bear as a type of brown bear (Ursus arctos), labelling it as Ursus maritimus...
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    Brown bear (redirect from Ursus arctos)
    "Moccasin Joe". The scientific name of the brown bear, Ursus arctos, comes from the Latin ursus, meaning "bear", and the Greek ἄρκτος/arktos, also meaning...
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    The Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) is one of the most common subspecies of the brown bear, and is found in much of Eurasia. It is also called...
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    Sun bear (redirect from Ursus (Helarctos))
    photographic capture–recapture sampling based on chest marks". Ursus. 23 (2): 117–133. doi:10.2192/URSUS-D-11-00009.1. S2CID 86278189. Sodhi, N. S.; Koh, L. P...
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  • appearing in later Scandinavian sources, while Ursus is the Latin urso, or bear (Bjørn in Danish, Björn in Swedish). He appears in several 13th-century...
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    The Japanese black bear (Ursus thibetanus japonicus) is a subspecies of the Asian black bear that lives on two main islands of Japan: Honshu and Shikoku...
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    Cave bear (redirect from Ursus spelaeus)
    The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) is a prehistoric species of bear that lived in Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene and became extinct about 24,000 years...
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    The Marsican brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos, formerly Ursus arctos marsicanus), also known as the Apennine brown bear, and orso bruno marsicano in Italian...
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    prominent in the northern sky. Bear taxon names such as Ursidae and Ursus come from Latin Ursus/Ursa, he-bear/she-bear. The female first name "Ursula", originally...
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    bears, and polar bears, all of which are members of the genus Ursus. Bears not included in Ursus, such as the giant panda, are expected to be unable to produce...
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    Raccoon (redirect from Ursus lotor)
    in the genus Ursus, first as Ursus cauda elongata ('long-tailed bear') in the second edition of his Systema Naturae (1740), then as Ursus Lotor ('washer...
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    brown bear, or Iberian bear (formerly Ursus arctos pyrenaicus) is a population of Eurasian brown bears (Ursus arctos arctos) living in the Cantabrian...
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  • Latin name Ursus, the name means "bear". It is a popular name in German-speaking Switzerland due to the historical veneration of Saint Ursus in Switzerland...
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    early taxonomists; Carl Linnaeus initially placed the raccoon in the genus Ursus. In many languages, the raccoon is named for its characteristic dousing...
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    Blackheart - Keyboards (1998–2003) Hellhammer - Drums (1998–2003) Sensei Ursus Major (Bjørn Boge) - Bass (1998–2003) Abyr - Backing Vocals, Guitars (2007-2008)...
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    Arctodus should not be mistaken for the similarly large Eurasian cave bear (Ursus spelaeus). As an ursine, the Eurasian cave bear last shared a common ancestor...
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    from old Norse biǫrn "bear" (Swedish björn, Danish / Norwegian bjørn). The Norman Baron Urse d'Abetot (Latin: Ursus de Abbetot or Urso de Abbetot, French:...
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    name, T. floridanus is not considered a close relative of the cave bear, Ursus spelaeus, which belonged to a different genus. Like modern spectacled bears...
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  • as Theatre Group Member Jóhann Sigurðsson as warden Steiney Skúladóttir Björn Stefánsson as angry driver Driving Mum won the Grand Prix Prize for Best...
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  • Bass Neddo - Guitar L.J. Balvaz - Guitar Czral - Drums Bjørn Boge (a.k.a. Ursus Major) (a.k.a. Bjørn Bogus) - Engineering, mixing and production at Sound...
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    leopards (Panthera uncia), as well as other carnivorans like brown bears (Ursus arctos) and yellow-throated martens (Martes flavigula). The wolf (Canis...
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    necessitating greater attention and dominating behaviours from females. Both Björn Kurtén and Camille Arambourg promoted an Asiatic origin for the species;...
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    1981). "Ursus Maritimus". Mammalian Species (145): 1–7. doi:10.2307/3503828. JSTOR 3503828. Kurtén, B (1964). "The evolution of the polar bear, Ursus maritimus...
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    exploitation of the environment and cave bear populations. The case of Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller-Heinroth in Amutxate cave (Aralar, Navarra-Spain)"...
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    contains an imagemap) on July 24, 2011. Retrieved May 29, 2011. Kurtén, Björn (1968). Pleistocene Mammals of Europe. Zielinski, William J.; Kucera, Thomas...
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    "Llámame" English, Spanish Costel Dominteanu Cezar Gună Alexandru Turcu Andrei Ursu  San Marino SMRTV Achille Lauro "Stripper" Italian, English Gregorio "Greg"...
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    Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation. Kurtén, Björn (1968). Pleistocene mammals of Europe. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Mills, G...
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    Leipzig. An avid speleologist, in 1794 he provided the binomial name of Ursus spelaeus for the extinct cave bear from his analysis of bones found near...
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    modern humans and Neanderthals. In 1979, Stringer and Finnish anthropologist Björn Kurtén found that the Kabwe and Petralona skulls are associated with the...
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