The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest.

When polar bears and grizzly bears mate, the hybrid is called a pizzly bear, or a grolar bear. Pizzlies are becoming more common in the Arctic and the climate crisis is likely playing a role.

All hybrids identified in the study are "grolar bears," suggesting all eight hybrids descended from one single female polar bear who was born in 1989 and mated with two grizzly bears to birth four ...

A Pizzly Bear is the hybrid offspring of a polar bear and a grizzly bear. Technically, “Pizzly” isn’t the “official” name of these unique hybrids, but just one of the many possible terms.

The hybrid offspring of polar bears and grizzly bears, pizzlies were first sighted in the wild in 2006. That year, a hunter in the Canadian Arctic's Northern Territories shot what he thought was a ...

However, from our study, we find sharing of DNA with brown bears in modern polar bears and it also involves a 115,000 to a 130,000-year-old polar bear. This suggests mating happened before the age ...

A polar bear carves out a bed from a small iceberg before drifting off to sleep in the far north, off Norway's Svalbard archipelago. (Nima Sarikhani, Wildlife Photographer of the Year) ...

The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest.