Beatrix Beatrix Beatrix is a given name, most likely derived from "Viatrix", a feminine form of the Late Latin name "Viator" which meant "voyager, traveller" and later influenced in spelling by association with the Latin word "beatus" or "blessed". It is pronounced in British English and the same or in North American English. Another North American English pronunciation however approximates that of most other languages: , as shown by US dictionary entries for the former queen of the Netherlands . Common forms of this name include "Beatrice" in English and Italian, "Béatrice" in French, "Beatriz" in Spanish and Portuguese, "Beate" in
Kretzoiarctos beatrix Kretzoiarctos beatrix Kretzoiarctos beatrix is an extinct bear from the European Miocene and an ancestor of the extant giant panda. "Kretzoiarctos beatrix" is the ancestral group of the Ailuropodinae subfamily according to fossil records from the middle Miocene of Spain. Based on teeth structure, researchers have speculated that this species may have been a small herbivorous animal that ate very hard plants. The giant panda ("Ailuropoda melanoleuca") has a special craniodental structure that serves as a durophagous feeding adaptation for bamboo, and a similar tooth structure was also found in "K. beatrix"., indicating that this species may be the oldest