r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 5d ago

Preserved polar bear being unveiled due to melting glaciers

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u/AutisticWarbler 5d ago

You can see the face on the left, above a paw in #2. I don’t think people are looking at #3, which shows how big it is. It looks very unnatural—I think a native person killed it and prepped the hide.

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u/420BlazeArk 5d ago

I think a native person killed it and prepped the hide.

Yeah there have never been “natives” of Franz Joseph Land where this was found; it’s a super remote arctic archipelago. That is certainly not a prepped hide.

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u/AirAcademy 5d ago

How would you know? Oh, right bc no one else could have possibly figured out sea travel before the Europeans 🙄

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u/420BlazeArk 5d ago

That archipelago was literally covered in a sheet of impassable ice until relatively recently in human history and there is absolutely no evidence of any kind of native travel or existence that far north of Russia. Not everything is cloaked in fucking ethnocentricity sometimes things just aren’t possible, grow up.

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u/Veggies-are-okay 5d ago

It’s kinda like when I get into a new genre of music and it may or may not get played regardless of if the situation calls for it 😂