brown bear
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Let’s Get Ready to Jiggle: Fat Bear Week Is Here Again to Soothe Your Soul
It’s time once again to pay tribute to the utmost of ursines. That’s right, it’s yet another annual instalment of Fat Bear Week. People will get the chance to vote for 12 of the plumpest brown bears living at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska all through next week. The contestants include grizzled…
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Why We Need Fat Bear Week
After a summer of opulence and excess comes the lean time — the long, dark winter, when resources must be hoarded and stretched. No one knows this better than the fat bears of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve.
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An Extinct Cave Bear’s DNA Was Still Readable After 360,000 Years
A tiny ear bone belonging to a cave bear that died some 360,000 years ago has yielded the oldest genome not sourced from permafrost. The newly sequenced genome is offering new insights into the evolution of cave bears and how climate change can precipitate the emergence of entirely new species.