A recent DNA study has found that Polar Bears are Irish. The study found that the maternal DNA of all Polar Bears alive today share common traits of the now extinct Irish brown bear.

Based on research findings the two specifies likely bred during the last Ice Age when glacial sheets spread across southern Ireland. Researchers believe one hybrid cub eventually turned into the matriarch for the group and spread the hybrid’s DNA amongst the polar bear population.

The lead researcher for the group told the BBC

“It’s amazing to think that Irish brown bears are the ancestors of the modern maternal polar bear lineage,” the lead researcher while adding, ”As the hybridization between the two species occurred at a time when their home ranges overlapped, most likely during environmental stress, this has implications for polar bears in today’s climate.”

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The BBC in England produces some of the best nature shows in the world but these two videos show that it isn’t as easy as it looks, especially when the polar bears keep beating up on your expensive cameras.

Doesn’t matter how they are disguised either: a giant snowball, a moving snowdrift, or a floating chunk of ice – they all get caught in the end.

via io9

Polar bears: 3 – Polar bear cams: 0 – too much fun. is a post from: The Inquisitr

Attempts to bread a baby polar bear in Japan were thrown into chaos after it was discovered that the “male polar bear” brought to mate with a female polar bear was not all the he, or as the case was she, seemed.

Tsuyoshi, a four-year-old, 441 lb (200kg) cream-colored polar bear had been living in harmony with a female polar bear since June with the two often “playing together,” but babies just weren’t happening.

Reuters reports a zookeeper saying:

We thought he was a male, so we never had any doubts as we took care of him.

But one day we realized that the two bears urinate in the same way, and we thought, is that how males do it? And once we started to look at things that way, we weren’t quite so sure.

Two DNA examinations of Tsuyoshi’s hair and a manual exam later, the Kushiro Municipal Zoo found Tsuyoshi to be a female.

“We do have mixed feelings,” said the Zoo Keeper.

Lesbian sex might be kinky, but it doesn’t create baby polar bears is a post from: The Inquisitr