Meet the "pizzly" bear! The animal is a hybrid created by the mating of a grizzly bear and a polar bear — a pairing scientists found could be happening more often due to climate change.

Spotting polar-grizzly bear hybrids in the wild can be tricky. This polar bear's darker face and body shape might lead some to think it's a hybrid, but only genetic testing can say for sure.

Genetic analysis of "pure" polar bear DNA and "pure" grizzly DNA, he adds, shows that interbreeding has not been common. On the other hand, the warming Arctic environment is causing some animals ...

When polar bears and grizzly bears mate, the hybrid is called a pizzly bear, or a grolar bear. Pizzlies are becoming more common in the Arctic and the climate crisis is likely playing a role.

A grizzly bear rests on a rock. They are capable of mating with polar bears to produce pizzlies, AFP Contributor/Getty Images "Usually hybrids aren't better suited to their environments than their ...

A grizzly bear and a gray wolf faced off in Yellowstone National Park on September 4. The encounter looked like it had the makings of a classic battle royale after the wolf ran up to the big bruin ...

Polar Bear vs Grizzly Bear Genetically, polar bears and grizzly bears aren’t all that different. Scientists believe that polar bears split from grizzly bears between 250,000 and 130,000 years ago.

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Other, less fanciful suggestions, were that it was a grizzly bear cub and a dog-wolf hybrid, the explanation favoured by Ty Smucker, wolf management specialist for Montana FWP. He said: "Several ...

TORONTO -- A DNA test has confirmed what zoologists, hunters and aboriginal trackers in far northern Canada have dreamed of for years: the first documented case of a grizzly-polar bear ...