...photoshop??...thats what it looks like to me....

Stocky, short limbs, thick paws.

Looks like a bear to me.

Bear.

Probably scratched off -- mange'll do that.  Makes you so itchy you dig yourself raw.

i don't know i looked up a grizzly bear skull on google those teeth seem to big and the body too small in comparison to be a grizzly but i'm no expert where was that taken? somebody having us on?! or it's a grizzly with very large teeth.

It is a black bear. The reason its fur is gone is that all animals lose their fur as the decompose. (trust me I love to look at roadkill and see it all the time) Add to that the constant flow of river water, and you have a nearly bald bear. I think this is not full grown though. Adult bears do not have such pointed teeth. They tend to dull and develop more rounded tips. I would saw a "teenage" bear, that was either killed by a larger, male bear, shot for the fun of it by a hunter that did not want to drag it from the river, or just a dumb bear the drowned during a flood, and this was the end result.

I find it a little strange though that some fisherman is standing there fishing all casual next to that thing. Decomposition at the point would smell so effin' foul he couldn't possibly be so close to it without having some major issues. I think he was photoshopped in for effect. If not, he has a nose like a rock!

Its definitely a bear you can tell by the side view the way the under part of its arm droops i have seen a dead bear before so that's def a bear