Row after row, the rocks bear the same date: 7-11-2005.

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In the current extended bear, we've had only two such declines to date, one from 2000 to 2002 and another from 2007 to 2009.

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Dr Andrew Kitchener, curator of birds and mammals at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, where the remains are kept, said to date it was Scotland's only identified resident polar bear.

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