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...species might interbreed. "These guys only split off evolutionarily about 150,000 years ago, so hybrids are viable," he says. That's no speculation: DNA analysis has proven that a bear shot in 2006 in Canada's Northwest Territories was part-grizzly, part-polar bear; the names "grolar bear" and "pizzly" have been floated in reference to it. (The hunter who killed the animal was spared a fine because the local laws against hunting bear apply only to grizzlies.) "I think it will be a rare event," says Rockwell. (See "Will the Polar Bear Survive...
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