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* The Dharma Inititave was genetically engineering Polar Bears to withstand heat and survive in warmer climates, and the Polar Bear found in Tunisia, Africa by Charlotte Lewis was a part of this program. It was moved from the Hydra Station to Africa to test it, to see whether or not it could withstand the heat. It died, leaving the experiment a failure.

o This is likely, yet Dharma could have easily just tested the Polar Bears on the Island. Unless they were trying to put the Polar Bear in higher levels of heat to see how much it could withstand.

o Not just higher levels of heat; Dharma could have been trying to test and see if what they did to the Polar bears to allow them to withstand extreme heat would continue to work off island. That seems like the whole point, figuring out the powers of the island and applying them off island.

o Also, this wouldn't cause the bones to fossilize.

+ The skeleton wasn't fossilized.

# Not only that, but the Dharma collar was not fossilized, and the leather, although worn, was still leather. If it was fossilized, it would have been entirely different.

+ The skeleton couldn't have been from the distant past, as it was in the Tunisian desert in a fairly shallow archaeological dig as well.

+ It could have been part of the life extension project.

# Also, if it had been fossilized, it would have been in a rock strata, but it looked like it was just buried in the sand.

o Highly unlikely as polar bear cubs need training from there mothers to survive in the artic, just dropping a polar bear in the desert with modified genes would insure death as they know nothing of there surounding or how to hunt in the area.

* There are multiple Hydra Stations, and possibly other Dharma stations, around the world, or were at one time, and one was in Tunisia.

* Assuming The Orchid conducts time travel or teleportation experiments, the polar bear may have been accidentally transported to Tunisia. The Orchid may borrow the animals from Hydra to conduct such experiments, which explains the Hydra logo.

* The bear was deliberately moved to the desert via the Sahara Vortex - one of the Vile Vortices - or it was 'sucked' through by accident.

* Walt put it there. The flashback takes place soon after the crash- during one of the polar bear attacks Walt could have "wished" it away, not specifically to Tunisia.

o The skeleton was more than 90 days old.

* It may just simply fell off a plane by accident.

* Just as the Desmond and also the Dharma rabbit #8 were able to time travel as well as teleport locations, in the same way the polar bear ended up in Tunisia and died. That polar bear was originally from the island.

OMFG THAT WAS CHRISTIAN FUCKIN SHEPARD SITTING IN JACOB'S SHACK