Sentences with phrase «irish brown bear»
Although a decidedly different species, today's polar bears have Irish brown bear genetic material in their cells, indicating that the polar bear «Eve» was brown and that bear evolution was far from simple.
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Past studies by other researchers had looked at brown bear DNA in comparison to polar bear DNA, but this was the first time anyone had been able to get DNA material from Irish brown bears.
Not exact matches
It seems that after the climate cooled during the last glacial period, disappearing habitat inland forced brown bears toward the coasts, where they encountered polar bears shifted there by British - Irish ice sheets.