<P> The Ussuri brown bear (U. a . lasiotus) inhabiting Russia, Northern China, and Korea is sometimes referred to as the black grizzly, although it is a different subspecies from the bears in America . </P> <P> Meriwether Lewis and William Clark first described it as grisley, which could be interpreted as either "grizzly" (i.e., "grizzled"--that is, with golden and grey tips of the hair) or "grisly" ("fear - inspiring", now usually "gruesome"). The modern spelling supposes the former meaning; even so, naturalist George Ord formally classified it in 1815 as U. horribilis, not for its hair, but for its character . </P> <P> Classification has been revised along genetic lines . There are two morphological forms of Ursus arctos, the grizzly and the coastal brown bears, but these morphological forms do not have distinct mtDNA lineages . </P> <P> Brown bears originated in Eurasia and traveled to North America approximately 50,000 years ago, spreading into the contiguous United States about 13,000 years ago . In the 19th century, the grizzly was classified as 86 distinct species . However, by 1928 only seven grizzlies remained and by 1953 only one species remained globally . However, modern genetic testing reveals the grizzly to be a subspecies of the brown bear (Ursus arctos). Rausch found that North America has but one species of grizzly . Therefore, everywhere it is the "brown bear"; in North America, it is the "grizzly", but these are all the same species, Ursus arctos . </P>

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