Polar Bears - Data, Pictures and Videos

[tigerluver]

Here's a couple of relatively recent studies on the polar bear evolution matter. It seems in almost all works the result is a relatively recently diverged species (~500 kya).

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From Ancient Hybridization and an Irish Origin for the Modern Polar Bear Matriline.

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From Nuclear genomic sequences reveal that polar bears are an old and distinct bear lineage. Reply