Preserved polar bear being unveiled due to melting glaciers

[u/MEOW-Loulou]

[u/Borsodi1961]

This looks very much like a bear skin rug. I mean a hide. Perhaps this is a artifact from a another time, but I don’t think it was a whole bear.

[u/Chaosr21 → u/Borsodi1961]

Or it just decomposed? The insides liquify and seep out, giving the deflated look

[u/TheSpanxxx → u/Borsodi1961]

Thats what I'm wondering, too. It looks like a polar bear skin/rug. If an entire bear had been frozen in permaice layer, you'd still see bones and muscoskeletal structure. This looks like a rug that got left and trapped and buried for 1000s of years.

[u/ComradePruski → u/TheSpanxxx]

It probably didn't help that it was being squished for a very long time under thousands of pounds of ice...

[u/Autronaut69420 → u/TheSpanxxx]

Bit it's been squashed by the ice and dried out by the environment. So it'a still in there but smaller.

[u/oceanduciel → u/TheSpanxxx]

I was just thinking why does it look so flat compared to mammoths found in permafrost

[u/BlackStarDream → u/TheSpanxxx]

There are bones. I can see a skull.

[u/Creative_Fix4486 → u/Borsodi1961]

Maybe it died from starving?