Brown bear

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Brown Bear
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Ursus
Species: U. arctos
Binomial name
Ursus arctos
(Linnaeus, 1758)


The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a species of bear found in large in parts of northern Eurasia and North America. It weighs 100 to 680 kilograms and is the second largest species of the bear family (after the polar bear).