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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. Bit Old? by zaguar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I saw this in my newspaper several days ago. Isn't the first part of news "new"?

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  2. Old News by cheese-cube · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Seriously I read this in the West Australian on Friday last week.

  3. This is already being turned into a movie: by PapaBoojum · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Bearback Mountin'"

    Ugh... sorry.