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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

See also: Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos arctos)

Ursus is Latin for bear and arctos is Greek for...bear.

It's the bear bear bear!

Bonus fun fact: Arctic means "the place with bears" and Antarctic means "the place without bears"

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 10 points 4 days ago

Arctic and Antarctic don't mean anything about actual bears. They are named after the Ursa Major constellation. The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Ursa Major means "the great bear“, though. Being named after something that's named bear counts in my book as well as those of all but the worst pedants.

The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.

That's what the secretly hyper-intelligent penguins who scared away the polar bears WANT you to think!

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