[Paperpusher]

They were not black bears, they were related to the grizzly.

[meandog]

They were not black bears, they were related to the grizzly. Indeed, polar bears are believed to be the result of natural selection when grizzly (technically brown bears) got caught in the artic some 600,000 years ago. They are huge. I even saw one one bright summer night (no darkness) when on topside watch on a submarine back in the late 1960s!