Safari Ltd has a long history of releasing many larger than usual animal figurines and when their “Vanishing Wild” collection was retired by 2008, a (then) new series was released as a successor – the “Wildlife Wonders” collection. In contrast to the Vanishing Wild models these are (usually) hollow and thus quite lightweight for their size. The series was later renamed “Wild Wildlife”. As of […]

🌍 The diversity of brown bears is astonishing. From Kodiak giants in Alaska to desert‑adapted Gobi bears in Mongolia, one species (Ursus arctos) shows many faces shaped by landscape, history, and survival.

Discover their story: 📖 https://TPC8.short.gy/tzZzzdOF

🐻 A living legacy across continents.

#BrownBear #UrsusArctos #Bears #Wildlife #Conservation #WildlifeConservation #EndangeredSpecies #Biodiversity #Nature #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #TPC8

Mini North American Animals Figurine Playset (Toymany)

Before I start this Blogpost, I must again thank @Kenc and the folks at Toymany for donating this review sample. It is very much appreciated. As with other Toymany set reviews, this is a general overview to introduce the animal toy community to the set and does not prevent others from doing more in-depth reviews of individual figures. I will be covering the animals based on family-level (or […]

Read more... https://animaltoyforum.com/blog/mini-north-american-animals-figurine-playset-toymany/

#Alces #AlcesAlces #alligatorSnappingTurtle #AmericanBaldEagle #AmericanBison #Antilocapra #AntilocapraAmericana #bighornSheep #Bison #BisonBison #brownBear #Canis #CanisLatrans #coyote #grayFox #Haliaeetus #HaliaeetusLeucocephalus #jaguar #KeyDeer #Macrochelys #MacrochelysSuwanniensis #MacrochelysTemmincki #Meleagris #MeleagrisGallopavo #Moose #mountainGoat #mountainLion #Odocoileus #OdocoileusVirginianus #OdocoileusVirginianusClavium #Oreamnos #OreamnosAmericanus #Ovis #OvisCanadensis #Panthera #PantheraOnca #Pronghorn #Puma #PumaConcolor #SuwaneeAlligatorSnappingTurtle #turkey #Urocyon #UrocyonCinereoargenteus #Ursus #UrsusArctos #whiteTailedDeer

L’#ours « poursuit son développement » dans les #Pyrénées, avec une centaine d’individus détectés, mais son avenir n’est pas garanti !
A ce stade, « on ne sait pas si l’année 2025 va continuer sur cette tendance », souligne l’Office français de la biodiversité. La diminution de la diversité génétique, notamment, pourrait « altérer cette dynamique ».

#lemonde #ariege #Ursusarctos #biogeographie #biogeography #ecology #ecologie #Couserans
@geography

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2025/04/03/l-ours-poursuit-son-developpement-dans-les-pyrenees-avec-une-centaine-d-individus-detectes-mais-son-avenir-n-est-pas-garanti_6590367_3244.html

Grizzly Bear, Female (2004) (Wildlife America by Schleich)

The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is the world’s second largest carnivoran and has the largest distribution of any bear species, with a range stretching across Europe, Asia, and North America. They even once inhabited the Atlas Mountains of Africa. As with any animal with such a large range there are many subspecies of brown bear and in North America none is more well known than the grizzly (U. […]

Read more... https://animaltoyforum.com/blog/grizzly-bear-female-2004-wildlife-america-by-schleich/

#brownBear #grizzlyBear #Ursus #UrsusArctos #UrsusArctosHorribilis #Schleich

#LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 Brown bear in Minnesota?! This specimen, discovered during a visit to Crow Wing County, was subsequently transferred to the Science Museum of Minnesota. identified as a left patella (kneecap) from a modern brown bear (Ursus arctos).

Tags include the notation “Maryland and Mississippi” – referencing construction in St. Paul from the 1960s.

www.crowwinghistory.org

#ursusarctos #palaeontology #brownbear #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #patella #minnesota

Grolar bear hybrids in N.W.T. all traced back to same 'strange' female polar bear
New genetic sequencing tool shows family of western Arctic hybrids are 'quite rare'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/polar-bear-grizzly-study-1.7239850

Development of an 8K SNP chip to assess adaptive diversity and hybridization in polar bears
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12686-024-01359-1

#Arctic #bears #Ursus #PolarBears UrsusMaritimus #GrizzlyBear #UrsusArctos #HybridSpecies #ecology #NGS #MolecularGenetics

Cyberpunk Brown/Grizzly Bear Portrait

Digital art painting showing a majestic cyberpunk brown bear in predominantly blue, brown and purple color tones.

=> https://pixabay.com/illustrations/ai-generated-grizzly-bear-brown-bear-7858588/

#BrownBear #Carnivora #Cyberpunk #Grizzly #GrizzlyBear #KodiakBear #MightyAnimal #UrsusArctos #UrsusArctosHorribilis #AIArt #AIArtCommunity #DigitalArt #DigitalArtwork #DigitalPainting #FreeDownload #FreeImage #FreeArtwork #Pixabay #PixabayImage