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The world record, taken by Shelby Longoria, was taken off the coast of Kotzebue in 1963. It scored 29 15/16. Will there ever be a 30-inch polar bear entered in the record books?
The largest bear alive today is the polar bear (Ursus maritimus), native to Greenland, Svalbard, Arctic Russia, Arctic Canada and Arctic USA. Adult males typically weigh 400–600 kg (880–1,320 lb), and have a nose-to-tail length of 2.4–2.6 m (7 ft 10 in–8 ft 6 in).
The largest bear ever killed in North America was from Kodiak Island, with a total skull size of 78.1 cm (30.7 in), and eight of the top 10 brown bears listed in the Boone and Crockett record book are from Kodiak. [17]
The largest bear on record in modern times was a 2,200-pound (998-kilogram) polar bear shot in Alaska in the 19th century. The South American giant short-faced bear roamed its namesake...
In 1952, Roy Lindsley set the world record for taking down the largest Alaskan brown bear, and the record still stands today. Taken on Kodiak Island in Alaska, the bear scored 30 12/16 points with a skull that measures 17-15/16 inches long and 12-13/16 inches wide.
The world record polar bear—the largest bear species—fell to Shelby Longoria in 1963 in Kotzebue, Alaska. This massive bear had a skull that scored 29 15/16, with the greatest length of skull without lower jaw equalling 18 8/16, and the greatest width of skull sitting at 11 7/16.
Goliath was undoubtedly one of the biggest bears ever seen alive. Assuming his oft-repeated stats are correct, he fell in the upper size range for Alaskan grizzlies. But he was not the biggest...
Goliath was undoubtedly one of the biggest bears ever seen alive. Assuming his oft-repeated stats are correct, he fell in the upper size range for Alaskan grizzlies. But he was not the biggest...
Biggest Bear in the World Ever Recorded. The records of the largest bears ever recorded are nothing short of awe-inspiring. Polar Bear: The heaviest polar bear ever recorded weighed a staggering 1,002 kg (2,209 lb). This male bear was found in the Kotzebue Sound in northwestern Alaska in 1960.
The fossils of the largest known bear to have ever lived have been found, a giant that was the most powerful land carnivore of its time, scientists said.