Polar bear skull

We hope that you all are having a fun and safe Friday the 13th! In way of a small tribute to the dreaded day I am presenting a quick render of the polar bear skull scanned while we where at the University of Alaska Museum of the North. This guy was large enough to give you some really bad luck had he crossed your path! The skull measures just over 39 cm (15.4 inches) long. #ivl3d

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Building on from the last article I looked at in association with the polar bear I came across this one by Slater et al. (2010). Again the animals jaw is examined in this paper but focuses on the c…

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I wanted to share this photo for #skullsundays as it kinda makes me laugh you wouldn't expect a sea lion to make a polar bear look small but this male South American sea lion manages to do that! I can't get over how solid and chunky these male sea lion skulls can be. Both awesome skulls and both considered marine mammals (two of the few marine mammal species it is legal for me to own) I love both skulls a lot! Before seeing their skulls I would have thought a polar bear skull would be quite…

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polar bear skull

The skull and cervical vertebrae of this polar bear (Ursus maritimus, OUVC 9566) derive from a 26-year-old captive female from the Toledo Zoo who died of natural causes and was donated to Ohio University in the late 1980s where it was skeletonized. It was CT scanned in February 2013 at OhioHealth O’Bleness Hospital. The original CT scan data can be freely downloaded on MorphoSource: http://bit.ly/2RlykG8. This research was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. - Polar…

Interesting facts about polar bears (Ursus maritimus) : • They have black skin. • Polar bears are the largest land carnivore. These big boys can reach 2,6m (8.5 ft) and weigh more than 770kg (1700 lb)! • Polar bears have no natural predators. It is one of the few species that is even considered to be higher on the food web than humans. • Polar bears are classified as marine mammals, because of their strong dependence on marine food resources. (A4, ink, 2022)

Polar bear skull

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