Here in the Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen the last wild bear in the Netherlands was found. An archaeologist accidentally found a fossil of a bear's leg. It is that of a wild brown bear and perhaps one of the last bears that roamed here in the Netherlands in the early Middle Ages. It was retired archaeologist Wim Kuijper who happened to find the bones. At the time, this place was a dense, damp and untouched primeval forest. The C14 method dating shows that the bear wandered in this forest here between 880 and 970 AD. Today, this Ursus arctos or European brown bear is only found in the Alps, the Pyrenees and the Balkans.
Source: Lutra, Eindhoven
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