animals
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Oh How Wrong We Were About the Evolutionary Tree of Life
New research shows appearances can be deceptive when it comes to family.
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Strange, Isolated Group of Polar Bears Discovered in Greenland
Researchers have identified a previously unknown population of polar bears living in isolation Southeast Greenland. The bears hunt for seals on fjords, or freshwater ice shelves, instead of on rapidly receding sea ice like other polar bear species.
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Lawmakers Request Recall of Controversial Seresto Flea Collars After Grilling CEO
Democrats in Congress warned Elanco CEO Jeff Simmons on Wednesday that his company’s product, the Seresto flea and tick collar, which has been linked to at least 98,000 adverse reaction incidents more than 2,000 pet deaths in complaints to the federal government, might be banned if the company doesn’t acknowledge a problem. The stark warning…
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Polar Bears and Brown Bears Have an Ancient, Intimate Relationship, Scientists Say
Researchers have extracted DNA from a 115,000-year-old polar bear jawbone and used it to analyse the genetic relationship between these Arctic predators and their brown bear cousins (grizzlies included). They found that polar bears intermixed with brown bears quite a bit over the millennia.