Timeline for Is Ursus arctos a tautology?
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| Sep 29, 2014 at 14:37 | answer | added | alephreish | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 18:01 | comment | added | jlawler | Indeed they didn't. But the name confusion continues anyway. | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 17:51 | answer | added | fdb | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 17:30 | comment | added | fdb | @jlawler. arktos is the Greek word for bear. The Arctic region has its name from the fact that the North Star (Polaris) is in the constellation Ursa Minor (the little bear). It does not have its name from the fact that bears live there, a fact of which the Greeks and Romans would in any case have been ignorant. | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 17:09 | comment | added | jlawler | To make it even confuseder, arctic in English refers to the north polar regions, where the polar bear (U. maritimus, a different species) lives. Apparently polar bears and brown bears can interbreed, however, so they may be mere subspecies. | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 16:26 | comment | added | prash♦ | Isn't this better suited for biology.stackexchange.com? | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 11:10 | comment | added | Yellow Sky | Ahahaha! What about the Latin name of the mountain gazelle, which is gazella gazella? Or delphinus delphis, or giraffa camelopardalis, or glis glis (fat dormouse), or gorilla gorilla, or uncia uncia (snow leopard)? | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 10:56 | history | asked | Anixx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |