Polar Bear Skull Replica

Description

Polar bear skull replica measures 15.9 x 9.5 x 7.8 inches. The Ursus maritimus skull is a museum-quality polyurethane resin cast of a California Academy of Sciences specimen. 2-part skull (separate cranium and mandible). 1:1 scale. Made in USA.

Polar bears are noble animals with enormous strength. They live across the icy Arctic Ocean from Alaska to Greenland.

The body of a polar bear is large and stocky. It looks like a brown bear body but lacks a shoulder hump. The head is quite small compared to other bears, and the neck is long.

This bear can stand over five feet tall at the shoulder. Adult males weight between 660 and 1,760 pounds and read over eight feet long. Females are smaller and weigh 330 to 660 pounds.

Their fur generally looks white but can turn yellow in the summer sun. The skin undeath the fur is black. The hair strands are clear and lack pigment. The white look comes from light bouncing off the clear hair. Their wide front paws act like excellent paddles when they swim. Fur covers the soles of their feet to give them traction on ice.

This animal is the most carnivorous member of the bear family. It mostly eats ringed and bearded seals. The seals become easy prey when they surface at breathing holes or rest on the flat ice.

Scientific Classification

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Mammalia
• Order: Carnivora
• Family: Ursidae
• Genus: Ursus
• Species: U. maritimus
• Binomial name: Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774
• Temporal range: Late Pleistocene – present
• Conservation status: Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)

Icer, the polar bear articulated front foot replica, spots a fur trader ship far off in the distance. He calls all of his friends to make plans to escape. They are meeting underwater in five minutes.

Ice, the polar bear skull replica, grabs a rope from his garage wall that is long enough to loop through the boat cleats to attach to a huge rock at the bottom of the ocean and a pickaxe to rip holes in the boat to sink it.

Ringer, the ringed seal skull replica, grabs her fire extinguisher to spray in all of the poachers’ faces to blind them.

Becca, the bearded seal skull replica, grabs a fifty pound drum of oil to spread all over the decks so they slip and fall.

Harper, the harp seal skull replica, calls the National Guard to come arrest them.

They were all congratulated on doing an excellent job at stopping these poachers.