A Pizzly Bear is the hybrid offspring of a polar bear and a grizzly bear. Technically, “Pizzly” isn’t the “official” name of these unique hybrids, but just one of the many possible terms.

Hybrid bear cubs (two shown) were born to a Kodiak bear mother and a polar bear father at the National Zoo in 1937. Photograph By J. Baylor Roberts, Nat Geo Image Collection ...

Rising global temperatures are driving grizzly and polar bears together Image source: A.Lukin / Adobe. The first reported “pizzly” bear was spotted in 2006.At the time, the bear was heralded ...

Climate Change Could Lead to Increase in 'Pizzly' Bears, a Polar Bear and Grizzly Bear Hybrid. The mother bear lets the hare bounce away before continuing her trek with her cubs.

In modern times, the biggest bear on record was a polar bear taken in 1960. It weighed over 2,200 pounds and stood nearly 12 feet on its hind legs. From our Expert ...

These bears are exactly what they sound like — a cross between a polar bear and a grizzly bear — and the first known hybrid was documented in 2006, when an Idaho hunter killed one in Canada.

When Martell came up to the dead bear, his Inuit guide noted the animal’s long claws, slight hump and patches of brown in its fur and realized it was something unique. An analyzation of the bear’s DNA ...

The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest.

A polar bear carves out a bed from a small iceberg before drifting off to sleep in the far north, off Norway's Svalbard archipelago. Nima Sarikhani/Wildlife Photographer of the Year; ... Also featured ...