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Polar bear spin reaches new heights as geneticists promote their work
A new paper out in the journal PLoS Genetics proposes that a hybridization event between female polar bears and male brown bears (aka grizzlies) occurred in Southeast Alaska at the end of the last ice...
View ArticlePolar bears cavorting with ABC brown bears not supported by geological and...
The authors of a new paper out in PLoS Genetics (Cahill et al. 2013, entitled “Genomic Evidence for Island Population Conversion Resolves Conflicting Theories of Polar Bear Evolution”) propose to...
View ArticleAncestor of the polar bear by any name: grizzly vs. brown bear monikers...
Apparently, all media outlets (except Fox News) so confused the distinction between the two common names used for the ancestor of polar bears, Ursus arctos, that they got the point of a recent news...
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