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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 7d

Plan of the #Roman amphitheatre of Viminacium, Serbia. Discovery and analysis of brown bear remains here indicate bears were captured nearby and forced to fight for entertainment.

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🏺 #Archaeology

Plan of a round amphitheatre structure with several rectilinear buildings surrounding it. An insert shows a photograph of one of these buildings after excavation.

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Alexander Glass @alexanderglass.bsky.social · 8d

Corporal Wojtek of the Polish army, WW2, with human friend.

A Polish soldier in WW2 with a seated brown bear.

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 23d

Part of a photo study entitled 'Amphetamine bears of Poplar'

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International Association for Bear Research and Management (IBA) @ibabearbiology.bsky.social · Sep 7

Did you know? 💭
Sloth bears have several adaptations for a myrmecophagous lifestyle, meaning they eat mostly ants and termites.
Check out our species pages and explore the fascinating adaptations of all 8 bear species: www.bearbiology.org/the-eight-be...
*References in alt-text*
#slothbear

Close-up image of a sloth bear’s face with “did you know?” fact at the bottom.

Same image of sloth bear with text overlaid, describing the sloth bear’s adaptations.

References:
1. Servheen, C., S. Herrero, and B. Peyton. 1999. Bears: Status survey and conservation action plan. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
2. Mewada, T., and N. Dharaiya. 2010. Seasonal dietary composition of sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) in the reserve forest of Vijaynagar, north Gujarat, India. Tigerpaper 37(2):8–13
3. Swenson. J. E., A. Jansson, R. Riig, and F. Sandegren. 1999. Bear and ants: myrmecophagy by brown bears in central Scandinavia. Canadian Journal of Zoology 77:551–561. doi: 10.1139/z99-004
4. Davidar, E.R.C. 1983. Sloth bear’s (Melursus ursinus) method of hunting for termite nests. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society 80:637.
5. Melursus ursinus (Sloth bear) (webpage). International Association for Bear Research and Management.

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Bear Conservation @bear-conservation.bsky.social · Aug 25

Spotlight on Europe’s rarest bear: global conference in the Central Apennines

Steps taken to help people share space with bears in the Central Apennines of Italy mean the future of the Marsican brown bear now looks brighter.

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Spotlight on Europe’s rarest bear: global conference in the Central Apennines | Rewilding Europe

Steps taken to help people share space with bears in the Central Apennines of Italy mean the future of the Marsican brown bear now looks brighter. In 2026, an event in the Central Apennines rewilding…

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Archaeobears @archaeobears.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks Becky, glad you liked it. It’s good to bring all the different strands together and certainly couldn’t be done without commercial archaeology.

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is a really neat bit of work on Bankside as an entertainment space, based on years of painstaking professional excavation. A hard read for a dog-lover, but fascinating nonetheless www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’ | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’ - Volume 99 Issue 404

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Cool stuff from the @archaeobears.bsky.social crew

#BoxOfficeBears

Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is a really neat bit of work on Bankside as an entertainment space, based on years of painstaking professional excavation. A hard read for a dog-lover, but fascinating nonetheless www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’ | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’ - Volume 99 Issue 404

www.cambridge.org

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Sep 3

What was life like for the animals that fought in the amphitheatres of the #Roman Empire? New research tells the story of a fighting bear from Roman Serbia.

Learn more (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

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Archaeobears @archaeobears.bsky.social · Sep 3

Certainly does, ta!

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · Jul 11

A selection of finds from the Viking camp at Aldwark in the collection of NW Heritage CIC. Note the bear face on the left - looks Roman/Byzantine? #medievalsky #york Viking North Exhibition

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Archaeobears @archaeobears.bsky.social · Jul 10

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · Jul 10

Day 4

“All by myself …”🎶🎤

Everyone working hard in the cave in various areas…

A few bear and reindeer bones coming out today…

#Castlepookcave #CSG #PALAEOIreland #IrishCaveBones
#cavearchaeology
@ria.ie
@researchireland.ie
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Archaeobears @archaeobears.bsky.social · Jul 9

A fabulous English sampler dated 1598 and showing a muzzled bear and a large dog. Bears are really unusual motifs on samplers - here the V&A say they’re related to heraldry. H/t @isabellarosner.bsky.social on instagram. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O46183/...

Sampler | Jane Bostocke | V&A Explore The Collections

Sampler of embroidered linen with coloured silk and metal threads, seed pearls and beads, made by Jane Bostocke, England, dated 1598.

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Archaeobears @archaeobears.bsky.social · Jul 9

Happy birthday!

a pink birthday cake with candles and sprinkles and the words happy birthday

Alt: a dancing pink birthday cake with candles and sprinkles and the words happy birthday

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Archaeobears @archaeobears.bsky.social · Jul 9

A fabulous English sampler dated 1598 and showing a muzzled bear and a large dog. Bears are really unusual motifs on samplers - here the V&A say they’re related to heraldry. H/t @isabellarosner.bsky.social on instagram. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O46183/...

Sampler | Jane Bostocke | V&A Explore The Collections

Sampler of embroidered linen with coloured silk and metal threads, seed pearls and beads, made by Jane Bostocke, England, dated 1598.

collections.vam.ac.uk

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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · Jul 7

I really enjoyed meeting the @suttontrust.bsky.social students @uniofnottingham.bsky.social today and sharing the wonder of #archaeology. I suspect they now know more about 🐻 than they ever thought they would.

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · Jul 4

"Dima had leapt from the bank onto the bear, dispatching her with a single bite to the nape of her neck, almost before she was even aware of his presence."

Wild recount of tigers predating bears 🤯🧪🐯

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · Jun 26

compelling 2022 blog post by John Goodrich--who is in my tiger book--writing about Dima, an Amur tiger with a penchant for killing brown bears:
panthera.org/blog-post/da...

Amur tiger looking up. Photograph (c) John Goodrich/Panthera

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Jun 29

The theatre wasn't the only form of entertainment in Elizabethan England, though. Just down the road from the Globe were several 'bear gardens', where the unpleasant (but popular) 'sport' of bear baiting was staged 2/2

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Map of Bankside in London, showing the locations of the Rose and Globe theatres and four bear gardens, all within a few streets of each other.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Jun 29

#OnThisDay in 1613 the Globe Theatre, built by William #Shakespeare's play company, burned down.
It was rebuilt the following year but ultimately pulled down for good between 1644-45 to make room for tenement buildings 1/2

📷 Tohma / CC BY-SA 4.0

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Jun 26

Sat 5 July @ 1pm & 3pm
DISCOVERY DAY: ARCHAEOLOGY
Tickets: £7/£5 Book: bit.ly/4elAlMZ

Come and see the archaeological site of The Rose Playhouse, learn how its remains are preserved, and discover what the future holds.

You'll be able to handle objects from the period, similar to those found here.

Infographic, with the text of the date and time of The Rose's Discovery Day event about archaeology superimposed on a close-up photograph of broken pieces of green ceramic Tudor money-boxes found at the site

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · Jun 26

During his life, Mistahi-maskwa (Big Bear) was one of the most important chiefs of the 19th century.
He pushed for peace, and for the prosperity of his people.
Despite this, he spent his last years imprisoned for treason.
This is his story.

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The photograph depicts an elderly individual seated, wrapped in a patterned blanket with a checkered design in shades of brown and white. The person is wearing a loose, long-sleeved shirt and has long, dark hair. Their hands are visible, with one holding a small object and the other resting on a chain that appears to be attached to their wrist, suggesting restraint. The background is plain and neutral, and the image has a sepia tone, indicating it may be historical.

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Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈 @cybrarerin.bsky.social · Jun 23

If you would like to watch something other than Trump's war, may I recommend the Brooks Falls live cam?

It's back on, y'all, and there's a bear!

#fatbearweek #brooksfalls #alaska #livecam #nps

Brooks Falls - Katmai National Park, Alaska 2025 powered by EXPLORE.org

YouTube video by Explore Live Nature Cams

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Archaeobears @archaeobears.bsky.social · Jun 3

Spring bears are thin bears

Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · Jan 20

this one is my favorite because it was posted to a forum as "probable escaped orangutan".

a cinnamon black bear walking away from camera on all fours across a grassy clearing in spring, when bears are all skinny and shedding hair.

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · Jan 20

is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.

a bear walking upright, away from a trail camera

a skinny bear standing up on its hind legs, rummaging through a picnic area

a skinny bear with rangy, ape-like proportions, walking on all fours

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