Claim: The brown bear is an organism.
Evidence: The brown bear -LRB- Ursus arctos -RRB- is a large bear with the widest distribution of any living ursid.
Ursus is a genus in the family Ursidae -LRB- bears -RRB- that includes the widely distributed brown bears , the polar bear , and black bears.
The name is derived from the Latin ursus , meaning bear.
Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae.
Bears are classified as caniforms , or doglike carnivorans.