Bears Temporal range: Eocene – Recent
Late | |
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Brown bear from Kodiak, Alaska | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Infraorder: | Arctoidea |
Family: | Ursidae G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1817 |
Subfamilies | |
†Amphicynodontinae |
Bear are a group of large mammals found all over the world in many different habitats. They form the family Ursidae, in the suborder Caniformia of the order Carnivora. There are 8 living bear species.