1. Tycho accused Ursus of stealing his idea that the sun revolved about the earth, carrying the planets with it.

2. Ursus and Homo were fast friends.

3. Ursus was a man, Homo a wolf.

4. Ursus maritimus, the largest of all living bear species to adapt to the Arctic.

5. In their findings, published in Polar Biology, researchers from the US Geological Survey reveal the first evidence of long distance swimming by polar bears (Ursus maritimus).

6. A variety of the North American black bear (Ursus americanus) that has a reddish-brown coat.

7. Ursus Vodka is a vodka of Icelandic origin that is made in Hoorn in The Netherlands .

8. A government spokesman declined to comment upon reports linking the resignation with the Ursus bankruptcy.

9. Asiatic black bears; in some classifications not a separate genus from Ursus.

10. Ursus Roter is the only red vodka drink with an unique blend of pure Ursus Vodka and the subtle sweetness of sloe berries.

11. American black bears; in some classifications not a separate genus from Ursus.

12. We didn't encounter any polar bears on the rest of our trip, but later, safely back on the cruise ship,() I did manage to see my first Ursus maritimus in the wild.

13. Since 1995 it is distilled and bottled in the Netherlands by the Ursus Vodka Company NV.

14. But competitors though they may be, grizzly bears (being of the brown bear subspecies Ursus arctos horribilis) are such close relatives that the two species can produce fertile offspring.