• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    See also: Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos arctos)

    Ursus is Latin for bear and arctos is Greek for…bear.

    It’s the bear bear bear!

    Bonus fun fact: Arctic means “the place with bears” and Antarctic means “the place without bears”

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Zoologists were all “we need the type species of every genus to have the generic epithet” and then someone raised their hand and yelled “what about subspecies?” and they went “screw it, same rule applies for subspecies” and then it turns out the whole thing was a just a prank on Thomas Savage because it’s not like anyone was about to rename humans to Homo homo