Rare Family of Hybrid ‘Grolar’ Bears Found in Canadian Arctic

Rare Family of Hybrid ‘Grolar’ Bears Found in Canadian Arctic
Eight grolars—polar-grizzly bear hybrids— live in Canada's Arctic. The family of bears are the only grolars known to exist in the world. GNWT/Jodie Pongracz
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Canada is home to the world’s only known group of “grolars,” a family of eight polar and grizzly bear hybrids that live in the Far North, according to a newly published study.

A team of North American researchers studied 819 wild grizzly and polar bears across Canada, Alaska, and Greenland, to determine if the two species of bears were regularly intermingling.