Polar bear

Polar bear Temporal range: Pleistocene-recent[1]
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Ursidae
Genus:	Ursus
Species:	U. maritimus
Binomial name
Ursus maritimus
Polar bear range

The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a large bear which lives in the Arctic.^[3] It has black skin under the white fur. They are strong and fast, and can run as fast as 25 miles (40 km) an hour for a short distance.^[4][5]

In 2022, there were around 22,000 polar bears in the world.^[6] There is an extinct subspecies called Ursus maritimus tyrannus.

1. ↑ Ingólfsson, Ólafur; Wiig, Øystein (16 December 2016). "Late Pleistocene fossil find in Svalbard: the oldest remains of a polar bear (Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1744) ever discovered". Polar Research. 28 (3): 455–462. doi:10.1111/j.1751-8369.2008.00087.x. ISSN 0800-0395. S2CID 56292690.
2. ↑ Wiig, Ø.; Amstrup, S.; Atwood, T.; Laidre, K.; Lunn, N.; Obbard, M.; Regehr, E. & Thiemann, G. (2015). "Ursus maritimus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015. IUCN: e.T22823A14871490. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T22823A14871490.en. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
3. ↑ It is about the same size as the Kodiak bear
4. ↑ "POLAR BEARS". seaworld.org. 2008. Archived from the original on August 20, 2007. Retrieved August 31, 2011. 42
5. ↑ "WWF - Facts about polar bears". wwf.panda.org. 2011. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
6. ↑ https://www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/mener-isbjorn-kan-vaere-utryddet-pa-svalbard-om-50-ar-1.15559199. Retrieved 1 July 2021