MacFarlane's Bear is a bear shot in 1864. With the exception of unconfirmed sightings, MacFarlane's bear is sometimes thought to have gone extinct since the specimen was obtained in 1864. There have been many theories concerning the origin of MacFarlane's bear, which include suggestions that it may have been a grizzly–polar bear hybrid, or a surviving representative of a Pleistocene species. - Proven to be a brown bear by scientists examining the skull.
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