Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You See?

Jul 25, 2012

In a new study in PNAS, researchers at Penn State and the University at Buffalo say their analysis of polar bear DNA has led them to extend to origin of the species back to five million years instead of 600,000 years, reports The New York Times' James Gorman.

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