Slater used a technique called finite element analysis to put the skulls of a polar bear and a brown bear through a ‘digital crash-test’. He used a medical scanner to create virtual models of ...

DNA extracted from a 32,500-year-old bear skull hints that ice age brown bears migrated to Honshu, Japan's largest island and lived near present-day Tokyo before eventually dying out. Although ...

All brown bears today have some polar bear ancestry due to genetic mixing more than 100,000 years ago. Researchers obtained ancient DNA from the skull of a young polar bear that was found in 2009 ...

(Photos by Pam Grove) Genomic analysis based on ancient DNA from Bruno’s skull reveals that polar bear ancestry accounts for as much as 10% of the genomes of brown bears living today. An analysis of ...

Wildlife biologists David Crowley and Chris Peterson tag, sample and measure a brown bear skull in King Salmon (Photo by Hannah Colton, KDLG - Dillingham) She’s used to the smell, but getting ...