Study offers better look at tangled evolutionary histories of polar bears, brown bears - UB Now: News and views for UB faculty and staff - University at Buffalo

A new study finds the species' histories hide the convoluted stories of divergence and interbreeding.

The subfossil jawbone of a polar bear that lived 115,000 to 130,000 years ago in Norways Svalbard archipelago. A genomic study includes an analysis of DNA extracted from a tooth attached to this jawb… [+10962 chars]

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