Sentences with phrase «from brown bears»

Although mtDNA capture can not be excluded to have happened between ABC bears and polar bears, these estimates nevertheless affirm with strong support a very recent divergence of polar bears from brown bears.

So, if this new estimate of the age of polar bear divergence from brown bears is right, polar bears have seen 2 periods warmer than the recent past.

Early genetics work suggested polar bears diverged from brown bears about 250K [250,000] years ago.

For years polar bears were used as an example of quantum evolution and it is clear that they are a very different species from brown bears.

Regardless of the date of their divergence from brown bears, it has been mostly cooler throughout their evolutionary history than it is now.

In the south of Alaska, feast your eyes on the majestic hunks of ice at Glacier Bay National Park or learn how to catch salmon from the brown bears at Brooks Falls.

The focus here is on polar bears and how rapid climate change is altering and threatening their existence some 150,000 years after they evolved from brown bears and adapted to the below - zero temperatures of the Earth's northernmost regions.

Earlier this year, Frank Hailer of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt, Germany, and colleagues estimated that polar bears diverged from brown bears 600,000 years ago — a result that itself pushed back the evolutionary record of polar bears by about 450,000 years (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1216424).

Drawing on that data, Willerslev and his colleagues conclude that polar bears split off from brown bears between 343,000 and 479,000 years ago.

From brown bear to elk, track 25 different preys in this hunting simulation set in the most beautiful countryside of the USA.

I also sought reactions from some polar bear specialists and biologists focused on DNA clues to when the species split from its brown bear kin.

Not exact matches

The conceit is similar to that of TONL, a stock photography company born from the Black Lives Matter movement, which expects to book $ 188,000 in revenue this year serving up imagery that represents black and brown people.

«All local matters are to be banished from the general legislature... and if our friends in Lower Canada choose to be extravagant, they will have to bear the burden of it themselves,» remarked Brown with reference to his previous annoyance.

He finds these values as well in the handiwork of «insurrectionists» from Daniel Shays to John Brown to Timothy McVeigh, and in the arguments of neo-republican legal scholars such as Amar, Sanford Levinson and David Williams, who find a mandate for revolutionary resistance to oppressive government in the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

as the ice retreated a group of brown bears were seperated from the mainland over time the offspring of those trapped bears that had lighter fur were able to catch food easiler thus passing on their genetics.

As we checked in, E and I were hauled in front of a security officer to taste the revolting baby food we were carrying; Hugh's Calpol was unceremoniously confiscated; E had to prise the teddy bear from his hands [the response was what E fondly calls auto - waa] and just in case mother and child were not feeling sufficiently browned off by this stage in the proceedings, I was forced to stand the other side of the security barrier while my baby and hispushchair were searched.

Banana Bread Buttermilk Pancakes from Love and Confections Blackberry Cream Cheese Sweet Rolls from Pink Cake Plate Brown Sugar Poptarts from Big Bear's Wife Creme Brulee French Toast from The Barbee Housewife Cherry Almond Coffee Cake from The Chef Next Door Cheddar Dinner Rolls from Family Around the Table Cinnamon Apple Danish from Nik Snacks Garlic and Herb Pull Apart Bread from Jane's Adventures in Dinner Lemon Poppy Seed Loaf Cake from Books n» Cooks

So strong is the hold of these tangled waters on Kyle that, even when not fishing, he's still cruising them aboard his stately, carvel - planked Home Shore from which he and son Ben conduct kayak charters that guide paddlers of all stripes within fathoms of brown bears and blue glaciers.

If switching from white rice to brown sounds like a bore, try one of these alternative whole grains:

Apple Cheddar Cream Cheese Danish from Amy's Cooking Adventures Apple Cinnamon Bread from It Bakes Me Happy Gluten Free Apple Waffles from Gluten Free Crumbley Banana Bread Buttermilk Pancakes from Love and Confections Blackberry Cream Cheese Sweet Rolls from Pink Cake Plate Brown Sugar Poptarts from Big Bear's Wife Creme Brulee French Toast from The Barbee Housewife Cherry Almond Coffee Cake from The Chef Next Door Cheddar Dinner Rolls from Family Around the Table Cinnamon Apple Danish from Nik Snacks Garlic and Herb Pull Apart Bread from Jane's Adventures in Dinner Lemon Poppy Seed Loaf Cake from Books n» Cooks Mocha Eclairs from The Redhead Baker Sweet Apple Hand Pies with Cheddar Shortcrust from An Edible Mosaic

If you were born before 1980, at one point or another, you have taken a slightly smushed peanut butter and jelly sandwich from a lunchbox or brown paper bag and gone to town on it.

A hulking mother brown bear glares from her den at four intruders... who have climbed a Kodiak mountain to try to catch her cubs for exhibits at a zoo

Bottles from Born Free, Dr. Browns, Tommee Tippee, Avent, Lansinoh, and Medela all fit well in this warmer when tested.

For example, they'll love an adorable bear cub made from brown bread, peanut butter and jelly nestled on a bed of blueberries.

This model is a nice break from the regular, boring brown compression stockings available from most companies.

These quesadillas were born from some leftover pesto that we made to toss with pasta, some leftover corn tortillas, and some leftover browned turkey from making tacos.

Pura stainless baby bottles are compatible with wide neck nipples from Pura, Think Baby, Dr. Brown's, and Born Free!

What I like the most about this bottle is that it is compatible with any nipples from Dr. Brown's, Think Baby and Born Free.

The City of Buffalo's recommended 2014 capital budget, unveiled Friday by Mayor Byron Brown, spends nearly $ 23 million on everything from parks to polar bears.

And a Teddy Bear has been the one media diversion over the last few days that has helped distract public attention from Brown's woes.

I can't think of what's more nasty than leaving whole generations in an astonishingly perilous state - from our young people who'll have to bear the burden of the financial bailout to the retired and about to retire who've had their pensions firstly stolen by Brown and now decimated by his failed policies.

Using annual population estimates from the Russian Federal Agency of Game Mammal Monitoring database, researchers analyzed trends of eight large mammals — roe deer, red deer, reindeer, moose, wild boar, brown bears, lynx, and gray wolves — in Russia from 1981 to 2010, a time period that includes the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

Oregon State University researchers are using DNA from residual saliva on partially consumed salmon to identify bears from the genetic samples, a significant boost to research on the population and health of brown bears.

They also swabbed a total of 272 brown bear «scats,» or fecal samples, from those same locations.

This analysis showed that while Tibetan brown bears share a close common ancestry with their North American and Eurasian kin, Himalayan brown bears belong to a distinct evolutionary lineage that diverged early on from all other brown bears.

The other eight were from Asian black bears, Himalayan brown bears or Tibetan brown bears.

Nielsen estimates that polar and brown bears split from their common ancestor 479,000 to 343,000 years ago, when Arctic conditions were mild.

«This pattern in brown bears covers even larger geographic areas than analogous findings from humans, where the Y - chromosomal lineage of Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, was spread across much of Asia,» said Tobias Bidon and Frank Hailer, lead authors of the study.

Mitochondrial DNA from nine samples showed that Ötzi's getup consisted of hides from five different species: goat leather leggings, a sheep hide loincloth, a roe deer quiver, cattle hide shoelaces, a brown bear fur hat, and a heavy coat made of goat and sheep hides haphazardly stitched together.

This is significantly older than previous estimates based on mtDNA, confirming recent observations from autosomal markers that brown and polar bears from a genetic point of view represent highly distinct species.

Scientists at Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble analysed the genetic make - up of brown bears from all over Europe to find out which are the most closely related to the Pyrenees variety.

By analyzing the genomes of 28 bears — polar bears, including a roughly 120,000 - year - old specimen from Norway's Svalbard archipelago, as well as modern brown bears and black bears — the scientists in effect read back in time to a common ancestor at least four million years ago.

Eight of the nine yeti samples were identified as actually coming from the Asian black bears, Himalayan brown bears and Tibetan brown bears that call this remote region home.

The results suggest that Himalayan brown bears belong to a distinct evolutionary lineage that diverged from the other bears during the greatest of earth's ice ages.

They might have migrated to the area around 340,000 years ago, but were probably kept geographically isolated from Himalayan brown bears by the rugged mountain terrain.

During a period of glaciation about 660,000 years ago, Himalayan brown bears were one of the first groups to branch off and become distinct from other brown bears, the data suggest.

One hair came from an animal shot 40 years ago in Ladakh, India, by a hunter who reported that it behaved differently from typical brown bears.

The researchers» best guess is that the hairs are from either an unknown bear species or a hybrid of a brown bear and a polar bear.

One Web site continues to sell live animals ranging from lion cubs to brown bears, while an investigator who asked another seller if he could document the legality of his products replied that he had «no papers since everything is smuggled.»

As the team reports July 1 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, supposed yeti and bigfoot samples turned out to come from bears (brown, black and polar), horses, raccoons, one human, some canines (the test didn't narrow down if they were wolves or dogs), cows, sheep, a North American porcupine, a Malaysian tapir and a serow, which is a known animal similar to a goat or antelope.