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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think you have it the wrong way around. Ursus is Latin and arctos is Greek.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oops! I really should be 💯 on it by now since it's been one of my favorite facts for several years 😄

Anyways, thanks for the correction, I'll go ahead and edit it 😁

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But isn't Ursa Major a bear?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

no, she's a major general in the forces, you hippie!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They are, in fact, the very model of a modern major general!
They have information vegetable, animal and mineral!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Dammit, beat me by 5 minutes! I tip my hat to you, good sir/madam/other 👌🎩

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Lunar's the loony, I'M the hippie!

Would you say that she's the very model of a modern Major General, or would that be going too far?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yes, it means "The great bear" or "The big bear".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're fucking kidding me

I'm renaming the arctic from now on

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Bearritory