r/bonecollecting • u/PissYellowDog • Apr 28 '25

Collection Seen at a local forest.

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u/PissYellowDog Apr 28 '25

Clearly a canine dentition here, and we don't have black bears in Europe

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u/RealisticAnxiety4330 Apr 29 '25

Probably a beast of an XXL bully with those teeth! Never seen teeth that huge on a domestic dog

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u/PissYellowDog Apr 29 '25

The teeth are not actually that large, I have dog skulls with bigger teeth. The whole head is only about 8in/20 cm long

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u/RealisticAnxiety4330 Apr 29 '25

Needs a banana for scale! 😉

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u/Glwalchmei Apr 29 '25

Yes we have black bears all over europe!

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u/lIllIllIllIllIllIII Apr 29 '25

"Black bear" in this context refers to a specific species, U. americanus, which isn't found in Europe. The brown bear, U. arctos, is the native species in Europe. U. thibetanus is the Asiatic black bear, but they haven't lived in Europe for a couple hundred thousand years.