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First Ever Wild Grizzly/Polar Hybrid Shot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-one-tell-stephen-colbert dept.

tavilach writes "Jim Martell has a license to hunt polar bears, but when his latest kill had "white fur [that] was spotted brown and it had the long claws and slightly humped back of a grizzly," officials seized the body in order to conduct DNA tests. These tests confirm that the dead bear had a polar bear mother and grizzly father, the first documented grizzly-polar hybrid in the wild. This was lucky for Jim, who was facing a fine and jail time for possibly killing a grizzly. Scientists who would have liked to study the bear are not so lucky."

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  1. Good job... by facelessnumber · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now we'll never know what kind of mystical skills and powers it had.

    1. Re:Good job... by reddalek · · Score: 5, Funny

      Apparently being able to avoid or dodge bullets isn't one of the skills.

    2. Re:Good job... by SEWilco · · Score: 5, Funny
      Apparently it couldn't stop bullets.

      It did stop bullets.

  2. Lovely for science... by pdes · · Score: 4, Funny

    But how does it taste?

  3. Re:Pathetic that this animal was shot... by Dachannien · · Score: 5, Funny

    But they're adorable and they like Coca-Cola. How could they possibly be vicious?

  4. Re:oblig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a Polizzly Bizzle fo' shizzle, my nizzle.

  5. Re:Pathetic that this animal was shot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But they're adorable and they like Coca-Cola. How could they possibly be vicious?

    Let me introduce you to my ex-girlfriend...

  6. Re:So typical! by Supurcell · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah. As soon as they become the least bit successful, they turn their backs on their own kind and go find themselves a white bear.