1.2K views · 59 reactions | At 82° north, the world is almost entirely ice and sea. Few people ever venture this far, but for the polar bear, this frozen ocean is home. It’s incredible to think that only a few hundred thousand years ago, polar bears and brown bears were the same species. In a blink of evolutionary time, one remained in the forest, while the other transformed into the ultimate Arctic hunter. Every detail is built for survival here: massive paws that act like snowshoes, claws that