Historically some theologians have proposed that the animals in the garden of eden were all herbivores with meat eating being a result of the fall. The polar bear is found in the arctic circle and adjacent land masses as far south as newfoundlanddue to the absence of human development in its remote habitat it retains more of its original range than any other extant carnivore. While they are rare north of 880 there is evidence that they range all the way across the arctic and as far south as james bay in canada.