A rare bear hybrid exists in the wild: polar bears and grizzlies can produce viable offspring, confirmed by DNA. It’s a sign of shifting overlap, not “a new species”: experts frame these bears as ...

In parts of the Arctic, polar bears and grizzlies are beginning to overlap due to changing conditions, leading to the emergence of hybrid animals often called “pizzly” or “grolar” bears. These hybrids ...

Meet our story’s protagonist: a female polar bear. Displaced by shrinking sea ice in the Arctic, she was forced to wander south, deeper into the Canadian Northwest Territories. Here, our lady in white ...

Taking in some genes from grizzly bears is highly likely to be adaptive for polar bears, Arnold said, even though the results “won’t look exactly like a polar bear.” Grizzly-polar bear hybrids, like ...

If we were to list some of the most common animals, we might think of sharks, foxes, or dolphins. However, the world has plenty of hybrids. And they are just as unique and beautiful as the animals we ...