First Ever Wild Grizzly/Polar Hybrid Shot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday May 13, 2006 @03:48PM 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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Headline misleading by plunge · 2006-05-13 16:46 · Score: 0, Redundant

We've mated these two species in captivity. Therefore, this is not the "first ever" hybrid. The person who submitted and the person who accepted, the article writeup did not read the article.