THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SPECIES:

Canadian bear a grizzly-polar cross breed (UPI May 2, 2010)

Genetic testing shows an unusual bear, shot in Canada's High Arctic region recently, was a cross between a grizzly and a polar bear, experts say. [...]

The Northwest Territories Environment and Natural Resources said in a release the animal may be the first recorded second-generation "pizzly" or "grolar bear" found in the wild.

"A wildlife genetics laboratory has since conducted DNA testing on the samples, and the results of the testing point to the animal being a second-generation hybrid bear which resulted from the mating of a polar-grizzly bear female with a male grizzly bear," the department said.

The accurate scientific name is "bear."

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 7, 2010 6:39 PM