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Old 04-27-2012, 07:09 AM
 
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The 'grolar' bear – a mix between a grizzly and a polar bear – has been spotted once again near Ulukhaktok, N.W.T.
The sightings are becoming more common – the last one was shot near the community in 2010, and another was found in 2006.

More 'grolar' bears spotted in N.W.T. - North - CBC News
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Old 04-27-2012, 08:31 AM
 
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That is pretty interesting story. I probably would of passed on the shot on that bear for others to see and used the camera to take that one. Like albino animals, I pass on them as you don't see them every day.
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Old 04-27-2012, 11:15 AM
 
Location: Wasilla, Alaska
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The term "species" is typically defined in general terms as "a group of individual organisms that are capable of interbreeding to produce fertile offspring in nature." Are these grolar bears fertile? Or are they like the product of a horse and a donkey that produces sterile mules? If these grolar bears are able to reproduce it would mean that polar bears and grizzly bears are the same species.
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Old 04-27-2012, 02:18 PM
 
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The term "species" is typically defined in general terms as "a group of individual organisms that are capable of interbreeding to produce fertile offspring in nature." Are these grolar bears fertile? Or are they like the product of a horse and a donkey that produces sterile mules? If these grolar bears are able to reproduce it would mean that polar bears and grizzly bears are the same species.
Yes, pizzly bears are fertile.

Polar bears evolved from grizzlies.
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Old 04-27-2012, 05:36 PM
 
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Please!!! I would love to read the evolutionary geneology of the polar bear. What was it before, and then before that, and then way, way, way before that. If someone could go back about 20 before that's, you know, like when the polar bear was a slug or something.....
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Old 04-27-2012, 05:42 PM
 
Location: Wasilla, Alaska
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Please!!! I would love to read the evolutionary geneology of the polar bear. What was it before, and then before that, and then way, way, way before that. If someone could go back about 20 before that's, you know, like when the polar bear was a slug or something.....
Here you go: Polar bear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 04-27-2012, 05:57 PM
 
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The bear family, Ursidae, is believed to have split off from other carnivorans about 38 million years ago


That's what it says. That ain't gonna cut the mustard. Surely someone knows something.
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Old 04-27-2012, 06:01 PM
 
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Evolution - Polar Bears International (http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/polar-bears/polar-bear-comprehensive/evolution - broken link)

"...the mtDNA of brown bears of the Alexander Archipelago in southeastern Alaska is more closely related to the mtDNA of polar bears than it is to the mtDNA of other brown bears."
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Old 04-27-2012, 06:11 PM
 
Location: Point Hope Alaska
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Eves, I'm pretty sure that Glitch, myself and a number of others could post a link to several scholarly sources that discuss the evolution of polar bears from grizzlies, but you'd just start sneering that the information didn't come from the bible and is therefore invalid. Then you'd start ranting about religion again. Yay. Personally, I'll pass.
Funny; Darwin didn't believe in that theory one bit. Ever take the time to read his life's story??

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Old 04-27-2012, 06:16 PM
 
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Darwin died 130 years ago, times and science has changed/progressed.
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