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During ice age, were there polar bears in Europe?

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Svalbard is part of Europe as much as Britain or Iceland is. Polar bears are so common that all campers going to the interior must have special detection guns that trigger scare off explosions. This is by law, IIRC. read more

Yes, there were. In fact the ice age created polar bears. Polar bears evolved about 150,000 years ago from grizzly bears (also known as brown bears) that got trapped in the high Arctic when the ice age glaciers descended on them and destroyed their food supply. read more

"During the Little Ice Age (ca. 1350 to ca. 1850) polar bears were the major predators of sheep in Friesland. The Frisian Shepherd was bred similarly to how the polar bear evolved, to be inconspicuous against the ice and the snow. read more

However, although there was seasonal ice in the Sea of Okhotsk, there’s no evidence to suggest polar bears lived there during the LGM (and none live there now). A global drop in sea level of ~125 m (410 feet) (due to water tied up as ice) meant that a large proportion of coastal continental shelves in the Northern Hemisphere were above water. read more

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