Ursa Major (comics) become more feral and he begins to lose control over his human intelligence if he remains in his transformed state for several hours consecutively. Ursa Major was trained by the Soviet Military, and trained in the use of his powers by Professor Phobos, being a graduate of Professor Phobos's mutant training school. While transformed, Ursa Major possesses superhuman strength, stamina and resistance to physical injury to a much greater degree than an actual bear of similar size possesses. His strength is sufficient to allow him to engage in a one-on-one battle with The Hulk and survive. His senses are also
Ursa Major (album) down the album's progress. The working title of the album was "The Hideous Strength", after a similarly named C.S. Lewis book. According to Jenkins, the album's name was subsequently changed to "Ursa Major" because "...We’ve been hibernating and now we’ve awakened and we are hungry for spring and we want to feed and we want to thrive." Another album, "Ursa Minor" (B-Sides compilation), was scheduled to follow "Ursa Major" but the idea was later scrapped in favor of a new studio album. "Ursa Major"'s cover is derived from "Uranographia", a 17th-century drawing by Johannes Hevelius. The view is mirrored following