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========== While preparing for a full day of filming, The Brain Scoop team was paid a surprise visit by a university groundskeeper who had discovered a black bear skull in the woods. It is so old!
- Yeah, that's what I was saying: it was the oldest one he'd seen. And look at the molars, too. - Yeah. Holy cow.
- So yeah, well into his twenties. - These P2 normally, I mean, they have a double cusp on there and it's almost worn all the way down to the root. This...It smells really bad. Well, it smells kinda bad.
- Kinda bad. - Yeah, this is nice. This is crazy. This - this is is a huge pathology.
- Yeah. - Look at that huge dental abscess!
- That— so, that decayed away like that? That's the bone decaying away? Or did that just get worn off when he was dead? ...