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- MacFarlanes_bear abstract "MacFarlane's bear is a proposed extinct species of bear that was found in Canada's Northwest Territories. In 1864, Inuit hunters shot and killed an enormous yellow-furred bear and gave the skin and skull to the Fort Anderson post manager and amateur naturalist Roderick MacFarlane (sometimes given as Robert MacFarlane) of the Hudson's Bay Company. MacFarlane shipped the skin and skull to the Smithsonian Institution where they were placed in storage and soon forgotten. Eventually, Dr. Clinton Hart Merriam uncovered the remains, which he thought had been shot very far outside the brown bear's normal range, and concluded that it wasn't a brown bear at all. In 1918, he described the specimen as a new species and genus, Vetularctos inopinatus, calling it the \"ancient unexpected bear.\"With the exception of unconfirmed sightings, MacFarlane's bear is sometimes thought to have become extinct since the specimen was obtained in 1864. There have been many theories concerning the origin of MacFarlane's bear, which include suggestions that it may have been a grizzly–polar bear hybrid, or even a surviving representative of a Pleistocene species.Today, it is known that grizzly-polar bear hybrids do occur on occasion and that they match the specimen's description very well, notably the pale tan fur, and apparently also the oddly shaped skull which led Merriam to propose his new genus. While this seems to be a satisfying explanation, it was not tested thoroughly because the hybridization theory was for long just a hypothesis. Now that more than circumstantial data from such hybrids exists, ancient DNA analysis and/or a morphological study of the skull may well resolve the case of McFarlane's specimen. If it turns out to be a hybrid the scientific names Vetularctos and Ursus inopinatus would become invalid under the ICZN.In episode #215 of the History Channel program Monster Quest, \"Giant Bear Attack\", paleontologist Dr. Blaine W. Schubert (of East Tennessee State University) was allowed to examine the skull (although the Institute did not allow the examination to be filmed). Schubert stated that he was \"100% sure\" that it was the skull of a young, female brown bear and \"actually, not a particularly large individual.\"In a 1984 publication intended to correct Merriam's 1929 taxonomy proposing 96 distinct species names for varieties of brown bear, E. Raymond Hall synonymized all 96 of Merriam's names with merely nine subspecies of U. arctos. Hall synonymized Velarctos inopinatus with U. arctos horribilis, the normal grizzly bear.".
- MacFarlanes_bear binomialAuthority Clinton_Hart_Merriam.
- MacFarlanes_bear class Mammal.
- MacFarlanes_bear conservationStatus "Unknown".
- MacFarlanes_bear family Bear.
- MacFarlanes_bear genus Ursus_(genus).
- MacFarlanes_bear kingdom Animal.
- MacFarlanes_bear order Carnivora.
- MacFarlanes_bear phylum Chordate.
- MacFarlanes_bear synonym "Vetularctos inopinatus (Merriam, 1918)".
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- MacFarlanes_bear wikiPageWikiLink Extinction.
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- MacFarlanes_bear wikiPageWikiLink Morphology_(biology).
- MacFarlanes_bear wikiPageWikiLink Northwest_Territories.
- MacFarlanes_bear wikiPageWikiLink Pleistocene.
- MacFarlanes_bear wikiPageWikiLink Roderick_MacFarlane.
- MacFarlanes_bear wikiPageWikiLink Smithsonian_Institution.
- MacFarlanes_bear wikiPageWikiLink Synonym_(taxonomy).
- MacFarlanes_bear wikiPageWikiLink Ursus_(genus).
- MacFarlanes_bear wikiPageWikiLinkText "MacFarlane's bear".
- MacFarlanes_bear wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ursus inopinatus".
- MacFarlanes_bear binomial "Ursus inopinatus".
- MacFarlanes_bear classis "Mammalia".
- MacFarlanes_bear familia Bear.
- MacFarlanes_bear genus "Ursus".
- MacFarlanes_bear name "MacFarlane's bear".
- MacFarlanes_bear ordo Carnivora.
- MacFarlanes_bear phylum Chordate.
- MacFarlanes_bear regnum "Animalia".
- MacFarlanes_bear species "U. inopinatus".
- MacFarlanes_bear status "Unknown".
- MacFarlanes_bear synonyms "Vetularctos inopinatus (Merriam, 1918)".
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- MacFarlanes_bear subject Category:Bears.
- MacFarlanes_bear subject Category:Canadian_folklore.
- MacFarlanes_bear subject Category:Carnivorous_cryptids.
- MacFarlanes_bear subject Category:Individual_animals_in_Canada.
- MacFarlanes_bear subject Category:Individual_bears.
- MacFarlanes_bear hypernym Species.
- MacFarlanes_bear type Animal.
- MacFarlanes_bear type Eukaryote.
- MacFarlanes_bear type Mammal.
- MacFarlanes_bear type Species.
- MacFarlanes_bear type Carnivoran.
- MacFarlanes_bear type Mammal.
- MacFarlanes_bear type Redirect.
- MacFarlanes_bear type Thing.
- MacFarlanes_bear type Q19088.
- MacFarlanes_bear type Q729.
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- MacFarlanes_bear comment "MacFarlane's bear is a proposed extinct species of bear that was found in Canada's Northwest Territories. In 1864, Inuit hunters shot and killed an enormous yellow-furred bear and gave the skin and skull to the Fort Anderson post manager and amateur naturalist Roderick MacFarlane (sometimes given as Robert MacFarlane) of the Hudson's Bay Company. MacFarlane shipped the skin and skull to the Smithsonian Institution where they were placed in storage and soon forgotten. Eventually, Dr.".
- MacFarlanes_bear label "MacFarlane's bear".
- MacFarlanes_bear sameAs Q1388482.
- MacFarlanes_bear sameAs Ursus_inopinatus.
- MacFarlanes_bear sameAs Makfarlena_lācis.
- MacFarlanes_bear sameAs Макфарланова_мечка.
- MacFarlanes_bear sameAs m.0df_40.
- MacFarlanes_bear sameAs Q1388482.
- MacFarlanes_bear wasDerivedFrom MacFarlanes_bear?oldid=703027502.
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- MacFarlanes_bear name "MacFarlane's bear".