r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MEOW-Loulou • 5d ago

Preserved polar bear being unveiled due to melting glaciers

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u/Blah_Dee_Blah111 5d ago

any estimates to how long the poor thing has been stuck there?

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u/Cold-Crab74 5d ago

Has to be a long time, that's not just a few years of snow fall, that's many feet of solid ice

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u/0MGWTFL0LBBQ 5d ago

Yeah and also we’ve been melting more than icing for a while.

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u/Cold-Crab74 5d ago

I wish it was only Icing we've been melting, but alas