This Bear Should Not Exist! The MacFarlane Bear, 1864

Discover the shocking story of the MacFarlane Bear, a baffling anomaly in nature's history. Uncover the secrets of its existence in 1864 in this intriguing documentary.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:52 - Encountering the Bear
02:28 - Bear pelt and Skull
04:05 - Bears in North America
05:55 - The Giant Short Faced Bear
08:46 - The Pizzly Bear
11:17 - The MacFarlane Bear Mystery
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Lefebvre, Jean, and Phillips, Tom, directors. “Giant Bear Attach,” Monsterquest. History Channel. September 24, 2008. • MonsterQuest: Giant Be...
Goodwin, George, G. Inopinatus - The Unexpected. Strange Ark. November, 1946. www.strangeark.com/macfarlane-...
Shuker, Karl. "From Flying Toads To Snakes With Wings." Llewellyn, St Paul. 1997.
“MacFarlane’s Bear,” The Centre for Fortean Zoology-Canada. January 7, 2012. cfz-canada.blogspot.com/2012/0...
Coleman, Loren, and Clark, Jerome. The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature. 1999.
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[@RoadHead62]

No dna testing? That should clear things up in a big hurry. That, and there are plenty of short faced bear bones to compare them to at La Brea. If it's such a mystery, then why hasn't there been any collaboration between paleontologists?

[@ANProductionsOfficialChannel]

Blame the Smithsonian for a lot of this.

[@jorgecruzseda7551]

They BEARLY GET ALONG???

[@schrisdellopoulos9244]

​@@ANProductionsOfficialChannel But why repeat their nonsense?

[@Freeontheland2030]

They have to tread carefully lest any evidence appears contrary to the narrative being pushed.

[@aldeureaux5184]

IF it is a hybrid, then “global warming” shouldn’t be the cause in 1864. So MAYBE the computer modals about that are not correct.

[@I_am_Diogenes]

And here is the moral of the story folks ..... NEVER send anything to the Smith that is important unless you want it promptly lost .

[@clobbyhops]

Thank you those guys are nothing but thieves and evidence squashers

[@asoncalledvoonch2210]

More like intentionally lost

[@prioris55555]

@@asoncalledvoonch2210 yep. they always inter-splice the global warming lie into many things

[@zedhiro6131]

They tend to "lose" inconvenient proofs.

[@Nu1SaNc8]

Yup they are there to manage what we see

[@luddite4change449]

There have been several Griz/Polar hybrids identified in the last 10 years. Most all IIRC were in an area were the historic and modern ranges for both overlap. No real mystery that this happens in the wild from time to time.

[@bigmule35]

And it has always happened and has nothing to do with global warming .

[@calebreynolds9183]

@@bigmule35global warming does cause it to be more frequent. Because the polar bears regular hunting area is far less vast, so they move to warmer areas and run into their cousins. Take your pills

[@Alexander711]

@@bigmule35global warming just helped increased the possibility

[@bigmule35]

@@Alexander711 The earth was much warmer even back when Vikings were around . Temp goes up and down, this has always happened .

[@neganrex5693]

@@Alexander711Funny the host said Polar Bears that love subzero temps was moving more southward because of global warming. I find that odd since a subzero loving animal would be moving more northward if that was the case. It has nothing to do with global warming and everything to do with over populating. Anyway I seen a photo of a sea level stick over a 100 years old and another photo of 10 years back taken on the same day of the month of the very same hour at the very same minute and the photo showed the sea level has not gone up until normal high tide. LOL. What Gen Z has been brainwashed to believe is global warming is really weather patterns making their decade or more rounds. When I was going to school they was teaching us the world was going to be in an ice age by 1999 and much latter Al Gore was saying New York was going to be underwater by 2014. We all know none of this happen and now it's time for AOC to be wrong with her nonsense. LOL.

[@randyvac01]

Wouldn't it be easier to do a DNA test of the MacFarlane's bear skull and fur; at least them the mystery can be solved on what the bear really was.

[@smokeybandit7613]

Yes. However you need approval which is most likely the reason it hasnt happened.

[@randyvac01]

Very true. Science is supposed to be all about truth and facts. The museum is fools for not yet having completed a DNA test. @@smokeybandit7613

[@jimshepard3966]

The Smithsonian will never let that happen.

[@praetorianrex5571]

​@@jimshepard3966why not?

[@johnsonjae]

It has been tested, it was inconclusive, but thought to be a Brown/Polar hybrid. The sequencing did have a striking resemblance to Arctic Short Face bear. However bear DNA is not exactly a conclusive field. Even among different species there can be genetic overlap, and family groups can vary widely.

[@aidanmartin7923]

Pizzly? Should have been Grolar Bear. Grolar sounds tougher, Grolar sounds like a scary beast.

[@alysabrumfield9607]

I said the exact same thing. Pizzly sounds like pissy,its a pussified name lol

[@msa4548]

Both a real names, depends on which species was the father.

[@alrivers2297]

​@@msa4548 Yup, it's just simple science

[@michaelyork7844]

Sorta like liger and tigron

[@donkeysaurusrex7881]

Call them mule bears

[@jamesivie5717]

There was a monstrous brown bear shot in Alaska about 20 years ago. It was much larger than the typical Grizz. I'm wondering why no one has made any study of this animal.

[@calebreynolds9183]

It was a regular grizzly, the one you’re talking about. There is an effort to study ‘Grandpa’ who STANDS at 12 feet tall. He’s fucking gigantic

[@MeltedFace707]

Wasn't it just a coastal brown bear that experienced abnormal growth because of the abundance of food? Kodiak island is known specifically for that

[@calebreynolds9183]

@@MeltedFace707 You’re correct, and a costal brown isn’t a grizzly either but people have butchered the naming convention so thoroughly that any brown American bear is a grizzly now. Even black bears during their chestnut phase.

[@stormtrooper7177]

​@@MeltedFace707 I wouldn't really consider that to be that abnormal as a coastal Alaskan. But that's considering the fact we have brown bears that will coordinate in a "pack" to attempt to hunt humans. Basically what they do is one acts as bait drawing you further in while 3 or more flank and encircle you, in an attempt to draw you into a kill zone. They haven't successfully killed anyone doing that yet, but it's only time until they manage to.

[@mottthehoople693]

@@stormtrooper7177 thats way out of the ordinary if true

[@rogerharris5515]

You should have shown photos of three skulls to compare. The Poler, The Grizzly, and the McFarlane bear so we could see the differences.

[@markalford5406]

Yep

[@ANProductionsOfficialChannel]

There are no pictures of it. Or, at least, none that were found.

[@eldesgraciado6690]

POLAR.

[@chonconnor6144]

​@@eldesgraciado6690he's probably just from Chigaaago

[@Ccyawn123]

Poler bare?

[@calebchristensen900]

The thought of a bear that will regularly predate on humans: crossed with one that’s known as the most ferocious is somewhat scary to think about. It’d be interesting to see if the hybrids can interbred as well.

[@adreabrooks11]

I'd say the "Most Ferocious" title probably goes to the sloth bear. They regularly get attacked by tigers - so their reaction to surprise is often to instantly fly into a frenzy of aggression. They look like laid back mops, but are renowned for their aggression.

[@mikemac4458]

You mean how ligers can't breed they are born sterile. Good question as to if the pizzly bears can breed.

[@adamadams6740]

The scientist that looked at the holotype in the monster quest episode you used footage from,said it was a small young female brown bear and didn’t understand why people thought the skull was special.I’ve never seen anything on the fur,but in that same monster quest they showed the polar/grizzly have inter bred and been killed.

[@rhapsody98]

I knew Dr. Schubert back in the day, and he was so excited to get a look at the holotype, and so disappointed that it wasn't anything special. All of us that worked at the museum did our best to watch that episode because he was going to be in it. They sent him to Alaska for close to 6 weeks, and he didn't even get close to a grizzly, meanwhile this guy in New Jersey is pulling bears out of his trash can. He really felt dumb afterwards.

[@adamadams6740]

@@rhapsody98 that’s rough for sure,a lot of time to invest.

[@metalmamasue3680]

Thanks, I saw that episode and couldn't remember what the conclusions were except that it wasn't a short faced bear or anything unusual in Dr Schubert's expert opinion. I Iive in PA and we definitely have no shortage of bIack bears/Ursus americanus in PA & NJ.

[@moviesmovies5337]

In the early 2000s there's another bear like this shot. And they did DNA testing and turned out to be a polar grizzly hybrid. They call them the Pizzlies or Grolar bears

[@princybella5386]

Grizzlars too.

[@kitefan1]

The pizzly(etc) I have read/seen about, that was examined, had a polar bear mother (I think). The biologists were happy to see that something of polar bear might survive because I think her offspring were thought to be capable of reproducing. In other hybrids, such as a ligar, they grow unusually huge. Lion and tiger ranges do not overlap now but did there are stories from the past. (Mughal?). It seems to me that some pairings of polar bear and other bear might be similarly huge.

[@uncle7162]

This ain’t with bears but my great grandfather who I had the honour to know and share a birthday with till I was 11 owned a 340 acre property just outside of Mackay Queensland. And one day when my grandmother was visiting they seen what they thought was a carpet python so thinking nothing of it they threw a rock it at and the next thing you know that Bastard Reared up had a yellow belly and was trying to strike. My grandfather been there his whole life and grew up with snakes said that thing was a hybrid. True story

[@johnsonjae]

So there have been hundreds of Polar/Brown Bear hybrids discovered since the MacFarlane Bear was shot. Some even forming family groups, proving that unlike previously thought, these animals are indeed able to reproduce. I have not seen the genetic testing for myself, but it was my understanding that the Macfarlane Bear and subsequent Grolar and Pizzly hybrids all shared DNA similarities with the Arctic Short Face Bear. Leading researchers to believe this may not be the first time Brown bears and Polars have been forced to share an eco system and interbred. Also, why is the Himalayan Polar Bear not on your timeline, their discovery in 2008 has really shaken up what we thought we knew about that family group.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Himalayan polar bear? Down the rabbit hole I go. Cheers

[@TrentenLobo]

No such thing as Himalayan polar bear but ok crackie

[@sirseigan]

@@TrentenLobo According to Forbes scientists have done DNA analysis on hair that was supposed to be from Yeti or Yeti like creatures. Two of the samples; one golden from an animal shot in Ladakh, India, in the 1970s and one reddish found in a bamboo forest high in Bhutan was from bears. And I quote: "The hairs are either from a new bear species, a colour variant of polar bears or a hybrid of polar bears and brown bears, the researchers concluded." And I quote again: "[the samples] closely matched the DNA from a polar bear fossil found on Svalbard, an island in the Arctic, dating back 40,000 years to the Pleistocene period, when much of continental Asia was covered with glaciers." This was written in Forbes on 2014/07/02 and the article have the title: "Abominable News: Yeti Identified As Ancestral Polar Bear" - the article are on their webbpage so it is just a search away. The name of the scientists is mentioned so you could probable check up their work and see research for you self if you want.

[@tristantimothy1004]

John, All bears can/do interbreed. Recently in Canada a polar Black bear was found. With the icepacks melting the polars are moving south & learning to fish like the other bears do & being aquatic bears are WAY better at it. When i was in the military we saw polars in the S.Sea islands. The natives called em the " White death" & were terrified of them. Theory is some got caught in currents & drifted around the world & took up residence where they landed. Nature ALWAYS adapts.

[@tristantimothy1004]

​@@TrentenLobo, And how would you know that? Crackie.... You the world expert on everything? Ive seen polars in the South Seas personally.

[@gemsbokpan5062]

You have at least two pictures of a blonde grizzly bear that you think is a hybrid. The ones with the Inuit hunter where he is photographed with friends with the bear and the other he is alone with the bear and his truck. Good presentation. I enjoyed it.

[@chaosdweller]

Yep 👍 I didn't even click on the video but I'm glad it started playing after clicking on the YT icon now that I'm done with it.

[@beastmaster0934]

I bet it’s a grizzly/polar bear hybrid. Although a late surviving short-faced bear would also be kinda cool too

[@TheJohnnyCalifornia]

It is kinda funny and a little disconcerting that, from this video, a lot of "bear science" seems to rely on a bunch of random rare bears getting shot.

[@demi-god3674]

There was recently an older “polar bear” skull found around double the size of a modern polar bear skull and more slender and different features that dated to 670-800 modern era and they still have to DNA testing on it. but given the spectacled bear which is basically a short faced bear survived to this day I would say it’s entirely possible especially given Canada’s huge pockets of untouched and impenetrable forest and tundra environments

[@Karpfense]

Can you send the source?

[@user-zp7jp1vk2i]

there's a cave on the Queen Charlotte's where lots of bears ended up dying, over the last 8,000 years. Once connected to the mainland, and being a grassy area, it was grizzly country (not today).Bears hurt seek a cool, quiet place (fights, tree dropped on them, injury from other reasons). There is a mandible in the Victoria, BC museum that is almost 18 inches long. He'd be looking in your 2nd. floor window at you.. Also, genetics can be funny: only 10,000 years you can get a genetic throwback and there you are: a short faced grizzly/polar cross . Crosses may allow these weird ilmpacts to happen and express themselves.

[@Liberty-Works1111]

There are accounts supposedly kept hushed in Yellowstone National park in the 1970's about sightings of a 14-15ft tall bear or bears by park rangers... same short face, stubby ears, racoon eyes explained here but massive... this is all alleged but one of the older park rangers at that time claimed it was from far, far up north in the unexplored regions in Canada (which exist to this day) & that there are both ice age animals thought to be extinct as well as extinct animals we haven't discovered as of yet (that we might consider crypted species) who sometimes wonder down from these remote regions... ?

[@GodzillaKyru]

A very interested Video and not the one I expected but I loved it. Are you going to do anymore of these types of documentaries?

[@ANProductionsOfficialChannel]

A few here and there because it pertains to history.

[@deanfraser419]

Well done Martell..your name will go down in history as the infamous hunter that killed the first natural hybrid cross between a grizzly and a polar bear! Hope you are/were proud of your accomplishment!!!

[@BinroWasRight]

Fascinating video, thanks!

[@myragroenewegen5426]

This is the closest I've found to a sasquatch of the bear world and I love it. All the explanations suggest something implausible happened. What would drive a bear to go so much further than it had to to find a mate, far out of the temperatures it was made for? Possible a bear cub was transported out of it's range by people and found it's way back in, breading along the way? Could there have been animals roaming about the Arctic that we think of as ancient relics at this late point in history, simply because the Arctic was big and inhospitable to humans? Anyone know a good deep dive documentary? May nature surprise us! I want to believe!

[@casualcausalityy]

I'd think the Inuits could provide some insight, their folk tales and verbal histories may point to some unexpected species

[@brandonmusick77]

I'd love to learn more about the bear cub traveling and making bread along its way.

[@tranceman8692]

Fantazoids. Check it out

[@KNemo1999]

Two brothers killed an enraged monster bear with a stick and a hunting knife. Maybe short faced bears are rare, but dudes this base are probably extinct.

[@SonnyCorleone-tg1ik]

An Productions, I like Vintage history. Good and interesting video!

[@BrOckSams0n]

At one time there were far more bears than there are now. i'm not sure why scientists always decide they already know everything, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out there has historically been a lot of cross over in range between brown and polar bears.

[@travisgravelle7687]

It does seem odd that the foremost expert on bears, wouldn't recognize a young female brown bear skull. Even if there were an outlandish back story to go with. More likely it's the first Pizzly /Grolar bear hybrid recovered.

[@whateverreally1347]

If that were the case, wouldn’t we expect the hybrid characteristics to fall somewhere between those of the parent species? Why would have a hybrid have a shorter face than both of its parents ?

[@robr5348]

It is well known that Schubert mocked and ridiculed MacFalane long before being given access to the specimen. He was obnoxious and insultingly dismissive all along. His findings surprised none of us.

[@MatthewLaCroix]

Well done 👏

[@phaedrus12134]

More of content like this please :)

[@joshualonghi8313]

I heard they believe that the California Grizzly might be in Mexico hear the US...Some ranchers had something killing their cattle and it was not a big cat according to life long ranchers! Info came from joe rogan podcast! Great cast ! Seen alot on the MC bear and always want to know more! TY Good Material...Subject Matter...And Presentation!

[@Andulvar]

Shipping anything to the Smithsonian Museum is a good way to make historical things disappear or worse.

[@paulofelipebbraga9634]

They pretty much buried, misinterpretraded and dismissed whatever that beast was. Pretty sloppy in my humble opinion. Maybe they are hiding something.

[@ExtermCentral]

Interesting video on this mysterious bear. Nice to see you discussing science and cryptozoology for a change too.

[@user-zp7jp1vk2i]

In Windfall Alberta we'd go to the pipeline cafeteria wet dump to watch the bears feed at dusk. Then they'd all leave, and Big Boy would saunter in at another 40% larger than the 2nd largest bear. you get genetic freaks, one-offs, in ALL breeds of animals, including bears. it happens.

[@wessyde9476]

I feel like this bear was the direct inspiration for that series "the terror"

[@davidcudlip6587]

Was thinking the same thing. Couldn't remember the TV series name though.

[@barryschroh4515]

still gradually coming out of the last Ice Age

[@KOSVENDETTA]

What a pair of badass brothers

[@kevinleee3408]

Subscribed

[@BryanLChess]

Every time I hear “it was shipped to smithsonian” I cring because we know when things are shipped there they disappear.

[@robertdysonn]

This bear had to be a hybrid between a polar bear and a grizzly bear, if it were a short faced bear, there would have to be a population of them around unless these hunters were just the ones that killed the last one, which is highly unlikely. Can’t they just do DNA testing on the fur, I think it was saved wasn’t it?

[@ANProductionsOfficialChannel]

Blame the Smithsonian

[@robertdysonn]

@@ANProductionsOfficialChannel I’m not looking to blame anyone, they may not have understood that they could breed together in those days. They were just looking at an animal that was a little different than both of them but now that we understand what we do, the bear couldn’t of been a short face bear. It was a hybrid between the two different animals.

[@steveclark4291]

There's probably no DNA either none was taken or saved .

[@bri-manhunter2654]

@@robertdysonn. You are naive sir.

[@robertdysonn]

@@bri-manhunter2654 anyone who calls you naïve yet gives you no points on why is naïve themselves. What I said makes perfect sense, so I also have to believe that’s true. I guess you’re so naïve. No proof of any kind of short bear existing later than 10,000 years ago and this dip shit wants to think they just happen to run across one in the woods even though we know that a hybrid bear looks very similar to what they killed as well, and they still exist, smiles.

[@danieleskridge]

It's always fun to see one of my illustrations in use :D

[@user-mp9rd4hg8b]

What? Which one?

[@BrinleyLloyd]

Today, it is known that grizzly-polar bear hybrids (referred to as grolars or pizzlies) do occur on occasion and that they match the specimen's description very well, notably the pale tan fur, and apparently also the oddly shaped skull which led Merriam to propose his new genus. While this seems to be a satisfying explanation, it was not tested thoroughly because the hybridization theory was for long just that. Now that more than circumstantial data from such hybrids exists, ancient DNA analysis and/or a morphological study of the skull may well resolve the case of McFarlane's specimen. If it turns out to be a hybrid the scientific names Vetularctos and Ursus inopinatus would become invalid under the ICZN.

[@icarusunited]

I wonder, if that bear was a hybrid; non-sterile hybrid. Half-Shortfaced Bear / Half Polar Bear. With the advent of the end of the ice age, perhaps all that was left were these rare fertile hybrids that interbred between purer shortfaces, polar bears, and grizzly bears.

[@gshaindrich]

so you think that is more likely than a brown/polar bear hybrid? a hybrid with an extinct species...

[@ThunderPants13]

If a human and a Tasmanian Devil can breed to create my wife, it shouldn't be that surprising that a Polar Bear and Grizzly Bear can get together in the wild and make a Pizzly.

[@velvetbees]

Thank you for this story. I did not know such a bear existed.

[@yourpersonalflotationdevice]

Which Co.ag song is at 11:17?

[@debbieguitor1745]

I’d love it if you could do a story on the Spirit Bear of northern British Columbia

[@chaosdweller]

🤔

[@johnkidd1226]

Kommode Bears found only in a couple of small areas in BC. I worked in the mountains near Nass Camp and saw two different ones over a year of working in the area. Also saw a subspecies of large black wolves in the same area oddly enough and they are only found in a few areas in northern BC as well.

[@kitefan1]

@@johnkidd1226 Kermode?

[@hanburgundy4317]

​@@johnkidd1226 There are coyote/wolf hybrids here in Indiana and in the surrounding states, as well as many reports of "dogmen". I'm not entirely discounting these eyewitness accounts, but odds are far more likely IMO the genes in wolves that make some of them black are showing up in these coywolves. I've been followed by a coywolf, and they're huge and look like a mix of a wolf and a German shepherd - not at all like the smaller lanky ones I've seen out west or that used to be around here.

[@nicelydunwell5681]

Bear walks into a bar and says "I'll have a gin...................... and tonic" "Why the long pause" asks the bartender "Because i'm a bear"

[@hanburgundy4317]

Why the big* pause.

[@bobbymozza]

*paws

[@dawndriskill9588]

It would be "long" if it was a grizzly, they have long claws sticking out, making long paws.

[@stephengent9974]

The simplest explanation is usually the right one. Using modern techniques, it should be possible to get DNA from the fur or the teeth of this bear. The biometrics of the skull should give enough information on species. Most likely is a hybrid.

[@lanalorenzen]

I've read that because of the changing temperatures between the arctic and the lower latitudes, there is more co-mingling of grizzlies and polars. There will be much more in the future.

[@user-dm8pr4zd8j]

I realize the 2 brothers had wounded the bear with a musket shot. But how in the hell did they take it down with a spear and a knife without sustaining major injuries or getting killed? That is truly amazing. Those guys must have been real badasses and had some luck on their side as well!!

[@olliefoxx7165]

Clearly badasses. It takes a pretty rugged individual to live in such a hostile environment.

[@davidcopson5800]

Look what Leonardo DiCaprio survived!

[@kriegdeathrider7805]

It took a presumably heavy loaded .45 or .50 caliber round musket ball to the chest and then got speared in the lungs when it got closer there are very few things on this earth that are gonna do anything other than lay down and die after that

[@user-dm8pr4zd8j]

@kriegdeathrider7805 thanks for the info.

[@kimberlyfowler5748]

Eskimos, they had ways of hunting before they discovered guns

[@thomaslietzau2813]

2nd McFarane's Bear was Killed in same Area ..About 15 years ago

[@kdub6593]

Good video. TU

[@barrybarlowe5640]

Sounds like more testing is needed. I suspect a Pizzley.

[@lilbiscuitable]

Wonder if the "Hunters" found a frozen short faced bear and took poetic license with the story?

[@mermaidripples9302]

Yet, the two people who ‘harvested’ this short faced species are given no acknowledgement. ? McFarlanes Bear? Didn’t he just package it up and forward to the Smithsonian?

[@hisservants8003]

Why does it matter?

[@Magy-zm6mx]

Would you do a video on the Atlas bear?

[@ANProductionsOfficialChannel]

I have not heard of this. But I shall look into it as I am obsessed with bears.

[@kitefan1]

@@ANProductionsOfficialChannel Extinct, but fascinating.

[@nunyabiznis3595]

Obviously when the last of a species is killed it is extinct, but as a species evolves into other subspecies and then further into new species surely the original morphed into the new without the "last of the species" dying out. eg: the sloth bear, over many generation selects for smaller size and longer snout and becomes a new smaller bear type. So it begs the question "how much altered morphology constitutes a new species/extinction of the old"?

[@znail4675]

What if everyone is right? These theories aren't exclusive to each other. It could have been a polar/brown bear hybrid that also breed through some giant short faced bear traits. Just like humans have traces of neanderthals, so wouldn't it be strange for bears to have traces of old species in their DNA. Would it not be interesting science to do some DNA tests on the remains?

[@donmiles5080]

I remember hearing about this bear back when it was shot. Environmentalists were furious that this man had shot, although by accident, supposedly the rarest bear in the world. That's ridiculous because it is a hybrid bear. Which means you could shoot the last one in the world and a few years later there would probably be another new one made by the bears naturally interbreeding. This has been going on for many years in nature.

[@davidmoore2308]

You were around in 1864?

[@tristantimothy1004]

​@@davidmoore2308, Were YOU? Recently in Canada a hybred black/ polar bear was found. Bears are like dogs, they ALL interbreed & the jackass " global warming" crowd dosent know squat. Its not the warming causing this stuff, its been going on since time began & its the SUN causing the warming, that and another magnetic polar shift which weakens the magnetic shield allowing more radiation through. And it happens every 12-14,000 years. Add, the solar cycles are going into another hot flair period right now. The wildlife will adapt as it always has. IF any surface life survives at all when the solar maximum hits & fries the entire planet, AGAIN! Theres a reason the ancients, who were WAY more advanced than us built massive underground citys to survive the impending doom cycle that was coming to our entire solar system.

[@hanburgundy4317]

​@@davidmoore2308 In west Canada, born and raised, 1864 is where I spent most of my days.

[@Shogun459]

In the gamble we call genetics sometimes the Genes all align and you get a SPORT or at THROWBACK. Imagine a Throwback to the Cave Bear or Short Faced Bear. A Dire Wolf.

[@stanleybroniszewsky8538]

Has anyone given any thought to the fact this hybrid bear could have been the result of extraterrestrial experiments?

[@tballstaedt7807]

Grizzly/ Polar bear hybrid. I think we'll find that these two species have been hooking up for thousands of years. DNA test would clear this up tomorrow.

[@BriannaRubino-xy7mc]

I have a hard time imagining what a grizzly and polar bear hybrid would look like, can you?

[@raywhitehead730]

Very large bears were roaming in California as far south as San Diego County even as late as 1866. A 2200 pound bear was killed in Valley Center at that time!. It was weighed on a cattle scale.

[@nefariousjohnson8851]

Interesting

[@Pablo668]

Most likely a Polar/Grizzly hybrid. They are sister species or something close to it. Having said that, if you're wanting to go down the track or far more unlikely, 10000 years isn't an awful lot of time in terms of evolution.

[@Daniel-hv1hp]

I saw this on national geography channel back in 2013

[@joesmith-tg3co]

In episode #215 of the History Channel program Monster Quest, "Giant Bear Attack", paleontologist Dr. Blaine W. Schubert (of East Tennessee State University) was allowed to examine the skull (although the Institute did not allow the examination to be filmed). Schubert stated that he was "100% sure" that it was the skull of a young, female brown bear and "actually, not a particularly large individual."

[@michaelfox2433]

Yeah, this story sounded like a fishing tale right from the beginning. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and this story had none.

[@dawndriskill9588]

This claim by the Tennessee paleontologist was addressed in the video. Did you watch it?

[@joesmith-tg3co]

yes@@dawndriskill9588

[@lechanoine9372]

So, was polar-grizzly hybrid's skull compared to the McFarlane skull?

[@sunnyquinn3888]

We know polar bear x grizzly bears are a thing. Pizzly bears/Grolar bears depending whether the mother or the father is the polar bear.

[@Veradance]

Shouldn't there be dna available in the teeth that could resolve the issue. These guys should talk to people in Siberia, they cross with evidence a lot more often than in Alaska, maybe it was lost.?

[@nattamused9074]

“The world’s most rarest bear.” KZbin’s most bestest writing.

[@johnmead8437]

Another apparent bear mystery is the account of finding a yeti den in ?Bhutan forest. Hairs were found and DNA testing showed amazingly not yeti, but black bear-polar bear mix.

[@davidkulmaczewski4911]

Have they considered whether a "pizzly" bear might be different from a "grilar" bear? That is, the offspring from a male polar and a female grizzly versus from a male grizzly and a female polar? I think lion/tiger and tiger/lion hybrids are very different.

[@user-gf3op7kr1p]

Interesting story for sure. I've always thought that the McFarland bear could be proved or disproved by DNA testing. As for the hybrid polar bear/brown bear, I certainly don't like the nickname "Pizzly"! It somehow sounds pansy-ass for an obviously formidable predator with the DNA of the two most ferocious bears on the planet. Perhaps we could have a concensus of ideas to better represent such a creature. Even "Grizzlor" has a mor macho sound.

[@The_Scouts_Code]

It could be a throwback from the descendants of a short-faced + brown bear hybrid?

[@user-ti6fw8tl2h]

Nothing can be the most rarest. Either the rarest, or the most rare.

[@bunglebee1790]

Or the much more morest rarest.

[@user-mp9rd4hg8b]

Yeah, I cringed at that one also. Wasn't going to say anything, though.

[@rundown48]

So... DNA testing is not an option??

[@ANProductionsOfficialChannel]

Correct, actually. As frustrating as it is. The Smithsonian will not allow this holotype to be taken for DNA testing. The reasons given are... sketchy at best. They fear DNA testing might destroy the specimen, and it being the only one, is problematic. This is an extremely weak excuse, but one they have stuck by.

[@keithrenaud3380]

More like DNA testing would prove it to be a hybrid brown and polar bear contradicting the "global warming" narrative.

[@mtman2]

​@@ANProductionsOfficialChannel "weak"...lol... pathetic is more like it = if reall the only skull claimed shot in modern era times it fully resembles a Short Faced bear...! They'rs afraid of the truth just like of the blood vessels and marrow in dinosuar bones being found in Montana & Wyoming for 20yrs now dated 5,000yrs...lol

[@serafinmagic1634]

A cross between the Hymilian bear & short faced bear was discovered via DNA. The locals called it a yeti.

[@chaosdweller]

What does sera- fin magic mean? haha, does sera represent a person? an does fin rep a cat or a fish ?

[@alysabrumfield9607]

​@@chaosdwellertheres alot of dumb names on KZbin that make no since

[@kitefan1]

Yes, I thought that was a fabulous finding, although I think I heard it is now in dispute. It makes sense that it would behave differently and be more grumpy than their regular bears.

[@chaosdweller]

@@kitefan1 what got you to wanna make that seemingly random YT name? I don't care how boring the answer is.

[@serafinmagic1634]

@@chaosdweller Serafin were the highest order of angles, so high/bright/unknowable artists depicted them with 6 wings. Magic is a term U should be familiar with from your gaming. Put them together & U have the magic of angels. Obviously UR not familiar with abrahamic religious lore. Historical education is great, U should try it sometime.

[@germanicus4864]

Isn’t there an island off BC that all the bears have short face DNA? I watched a documentary about it several years ago, they were big like Kodiaks but had different body and face shapes

[@unspun1YT]

Google it

[@grittykitty8005]

Why do they feel like they have to shoot everything that moves ?

[@karendeppe2275]

I agree. Why did they have to kill these poor bears. It is disgusting. Leave them alone. They just want to live their lives in peace. They do not want to do harm.

[@okaydudes]

I’m here to find Joe Rogan

[@noahbeaty2295]

Hi! I’m Joe Rogan.

[@snappymcburpy7629]

Pull DNA from the skull and analyze.

[@ANProductionsOfficialChannel]

Blame the Smithsonian for that being unable to happen.

[@glennllewellyn7369]

Interesting.

[@unluckycharms9017]

The map of grizzly country in 1864 is pretty far off. They ranged as far south as my state of Oklahoma and much further east than one would guess. The last one killed in Oklahoma was after 1900 if memory serves correct.

[@sheepdog1102]

If this happened 1864 then why did you bring up global warming as the cause when there was no such thing in 1864 as now there is no such thing as man caused global warming.😮

[@mtman2]

lol...EXACTLY-> the sky's falling...!

[@brymstar333]

Did you hear what he actually said? Or only what bipartisan ignorance allows you to hear? The specimen he was referring to , wasn't shot in the 1800's it was shot in recent times, and was the first specimen of a grizzly polar hybrid. Grizzly don't venture into the Arctic wastes, and polar bears only go that far south because of the scarcity of food...which is caused by the lack of ice to support the seal populations... If you don't think that the gigatons per year of manmade CO² doesn't affect the natural balance between the Earth's ability to remove it, and it's thermal retention potential, don't worry....because it doesn't matter! ITS ALREADY TOO LATE...the feedback loop started two decades ago, and can no longer be halted... The process normally takes about 10,000 years, but the amounts were putting out are 50× greater than the average volcanic outputs... 200 years time, will equal the same 10,000 year natural cycle, so you'll be long dead, but your great great great grandchildren will inherit a dying planet, if we make it that far.....and all for oil profits you'll never enjoy, and will pay out the neck to support... Good job! Fellow American!

[@str8cndian]

Of course Man's first reaction to seeing this natural phenomenon is too shoot and destroy it.. We are weird creatures indeed!

[@ANProductionsOfficialChannel]

It attacked them first.

[@dbx1233]

Do you have a problem with people eating bear meat? If so, you should try it, it taste just like chicken.

[@ANProductionsOfficialChannel]

​@@dbx1233I can confirm. Bear meat is pretty good.

[@giovannisocci4807]

If the option is to allow the creature to kill a man or two,then by all means kill the creature,it outlived it s usefulness.

[@jimshepard3966]

If the bear was checking you out as a possible next meal (as it was doing with them), would you still have that same attitude? When a bear takes an interest in you as it did with them, you are going to be it's next meal.

[@olliefoxx7165]

I had no idea there were 96 species of bears. Theyre such interesting and beautiful animals.

[@ANProductionsOfficialChannel]

Not true anymore. They have largely been combined.

[@allantulli5546]

Macfarlanes bear was investigated and looked at by a biologist for MONSTERQUEST and it was just a regular bear and is no mystery.

[@ANProductionsOfficialChannel]

Guess you didn't watch the video.

[@mtman2]

​@@ANProductionsOfficialChannel If that was the skull its a Short Faced bear; only to admit it means how wrong they are about everything else...0oops

[@allantulli5546]

Yes i did watch your video and you seem to be oblivious to the fact that there was nothing different about this bear- it's just a regular brown bear not a hybrid or unknown species.@@ANProductionsOfficialChannel

[@d0nKsTaH]

@@allantulli5546 Listen here Polar bear-squeeze.... If he says it was unique... ...Then it was unique. So there.

[@allantulli5546]

It wasn't so grow up.@@d0nKsTaH

[@Daniel-hv1hp]

A over sized bear is not normal just like a over size dog is not normal either

[@dbx1233]

What about the Toy Poodle that turned out to be real? Nobody saw that coming.

[@chaosdweller]

​@@dbx1233never heard of a Troy poodle before neat.

[@LewisPuseyOK]

love it

[@footnotedrummer]

You really should put an epilepsy warning at the beginning of this video if you want to add the fluttering effects. It's quite distracting for people without epilepsy, but could certainly trigger a bad reaction from someone with the affliction. Just a suggestion.

[@Rick-tt5hi]

I enjoyed most of your video. Except your continued reference to the false global warming theory .

[@jumperhighpd]

There's overwhelming evidence.

[@Rick-tt5hi]

I am 56. I have lived through acid rain, the next ice age, the depleted ozone layer, etc. Once you realize it is about money and control you will stop beliving this shit. If rich and powerful stopped buying ocean front property. Then I might be concerned. @@jumperhighpd

[@YankMil1]

Good story. Oddly the 2 men in 1864 with a musket and another fairly primitive weapon kill an unknown type of bear with one shot? The big bear was instantly dead? Then the pic of a man swinging the butt end of a rifle doesn’t add any realism of the story but okay. Throwing in climate change when it’s a mere speculation about why the bear they found might not be around anymore is just slightly click bait. It’s not that climate change isn’t inevitable but I’ve noticed almost every animal documentary or story uses it lately. Which it’s fine it’s your documentary or story.

[@mtman2]

Depending on caliber & load a muzzloader is as deadly or more within range than anything today = a .58 caliber ball weights the same as a 12gauge Fosters slug 1oz-> only be moving faster out of a 32"+inch muzzleloader & could devastatingly kill anything on the planet...!

[@billbammerlin4666]

Everything is climate change now, tired of it already!

[@BriannaRubino-xy7mc]

You speak well. Do you write novels?

[@idw9159]

polar-grizzly hybrid the expected explanation, mito dna analysis should make short work of this issue.. btw saying interbreeding was far less likely 160 years ago neglects the fact that bear populations were almost certainly way higher than they are today

[@TheRealTieLUR]

45 seconds in and the narrator says most rarest.... Aight ima head out

[@douglasmontgomery2063]

But then you'll miss him saying "simplized."

[@Mike-zw7fq]

" Global Warming. " uh or " Climate Change !" Uh I mean " Global Cooling!" Uh No I meant " The Coming Ice Age!" Or No! I Really Meant " Acid Rain!" " The World is Ending in 12 years!" So who Cares about a couple of goofy looking Bears? !!!

[@writingtotortureyou]

Bear:”hey guys hey!!! Nice to meet you I’m the first of my kind I sure hope to make a lot babies that look like me. What’s that stick you are carrying for?”

[@chouyi007]

"Which bear is best?" "False! Vetularctos inopinatus!"

[@erikringdal844]

There was an even larger shortfaced bear in South America , skeleton in Buenos Aires museum . Perhaps 1,5 tons or more. Arctotherium

[@jimlewis6680]

They act like bears have some fence keeping them from crossing territory into other bears territory hahaha. There has been occasional cross breeding since the beginning of time it’s not as prevalent now because human population is much larger than 150-1,000’s of years ago.

[@BriannaRubino-xy7mc]

Yes, as the number of humans increased, interbreeding events became less frequent. Do you like polar bears?

[@augustalawncareoffenton1461]

10:50 it begs the question, if this has been happening since 1864 then the 2006 polar grizzly hybrid has nothing to do with global warming.

[@robertfarrow5853]

The Moose is a hangover from the mega fauna of the iceage, so why not a bear?