SKULLS

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www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/3995794985/
"...This next photo is Alexander with Mr Preston, with Alexander holding a black bear skull (which has molars as well as carnivore teeth, since it's an omnivore) and Mr. Preston holding a wolf skull, which just has flesh-tearing and eating incisors since it's 100% predator..."
www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/10/09/

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Ventral view of skulls side by side (U. americanus on left), showing larger last upper molar in U. arctos (a small individual). R B Forbes
www.mammalogy.org/ursus-americanus-1132

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Feb 16, 2011 10:43:10 GMT -9 arctodus said:

How do we scientifically measure a bear skull?

View the following....

www.boone-crockett.org/bgrecords/bc_scoring_bear.asp?area=bgrecords&type=Bear



FYI....According to Boone & Crockett, of the top-25 record size (3/4 are > 30" total length) North American brown bear skulls, about 3/4 are Kodiak brown bears.


PS: One can dream about a near 4 foot bear skull no.... ;D

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Very strange skull

"...SAN FRANCISCO - MAY 18: Schoolchildren inspect a bear skull and hide at the San Francisco ..."

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Kamchatka

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Ok,small digression:
Standard statistics and discriminant and cluster analyses were used to study the variability of craniometric characteristics in Beringian Ursus arctos L. and to specify its taxonomic status. The eastern Siberian subspecies U. a. jeniseensis, belonging to the "arctos" group, dwells the extreme northeastern territory of Siberia, whereas bears of the Far Eastern "piscator" group are represented by two subspecies - Kamchatkan U. a. piscator and Ussurian U. a beringianus. Large and broad skulls of Kamchatkan bears are similar to those in the bear population (U. a. middendorffi), inhabiting Kod'yak and Afognak Islands. U. a. beringianus has common features with U. a. dalii from Alaska Peninsula and its Pacific coast. U. a. jeniseensis is relative to U. a. horribilis from Central and Northem Alaska. History and migratory routes of various U. arctos forms in Beringian region are discussed.
Taxonomy and history of the brown bear Ursus arctos in Beringia
by F B Chernyavskii, V A Krechmar
Zoologicheskii Zhurnal (2003)
Volume: 82, Pages: 534-541

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Short faced bear ,subadult? Alaskan brown bear

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John Duncan (JOHN DUNCAN) a volunteer with Saguaro National Park, shows the skull of a grizzly bear


URSUS HORRIAEUS TEXENSIS

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jimgaskins.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/johns-big-bear.jpg
Oregon’s # 1 Black Bear
jimgaskins.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/oregons-biggest-black-bear/

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Male and Female Polar Bear Skulls

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X-Ray of Kodiak bear skull
tedkinsman.photoshelter.com/image/I000030oarmp8z8A

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Skulls of a Sri Lankan sloth bear (left) and a common sloth bear (right) from the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

Melursus ursinus (sloth bear) ventral (Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas)

dorsal

lateral