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The polar bear is indeed a more iconic animal than the narwhal and, on top of that, despite being classified as marine, we can see it mostly on land. This may explain why people have been focusing more on it than on other Arctic animals, when warning about the danger of extinction caused by global warming. With all t... |
13 May 2008
04:02 GMT |
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Global warming is a reality, and the Arctic is affected by it the hardest. Our grandchildren may not get to see polar bears, at least not in the wild. In the summer of 2007, the Arctic ice surface was about 30% under the long-term average level, a record of all times. Some studies forecast ice-free Arctic summers by ... |
9 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Circus, in its modern meaning, has been employing both domestic and wild animals. The horse was the first animal used in circus shows, whose canons emerged during the 18th century. Since then, the circus animals have been gradually increasing in number and variety. At the beginning, the trainers used animals that wer... |
14 April 2008
10:59 GMT |
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1. In northern Japan, on the island of Hokkaido and a part of the Russian Sakhalin Island, lives a mysterious ethnic group, called Ainu, whose origins represents a mystery. They are very distinct from the Japanese people and, before the Tungus invasion coming from mainland Asia (Korea and northern China), the whole a... |
21 February 2008
17:16 GMT |
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There are 8 living species of bears. Bears split of raccoons and bear-dogs about 35 MA ago. The first bears were small, resembling the dogs. Panda bear was the first bear to diverge from the branch that led to the other bears. The bamboo diet turned them big. Millions of years later, the ancestor of the other bears a... |
19 February 2008
10:19 GMT |
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The grizzly bear is nothing more than the North American form of the Eurasian brown bear. Once, the terrible grizzly bear was in the whole western half of North America, from Alaska to northern Mexico. Today, it is still present in Alaska and Canada, while in the rest of the US it barely survives in Montana, Washing... |
21 December 2007
02:31 GMT |
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Its future is bleak because of the global warming and ice melting, but its past is going to be revealed to us. A team led by Professor Olafur Ingolfsson, from the University of Iceland, has discovered what seems to be the oldest known fossil of a polar bear, on the Arctic Svalbard archipelago, on sediments 110,000 to... |
13 December 2007
02:41 GMT |
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1.All living bears are the descendants of a fox-sized 20 million-year-old bear called Ursavus. The genus Ursus including modern brown bear (grizzly is part of this species), black bear and polar bear appeared 5-10 million years ago. Ursus etruscus that lived in Europe 1.5-2 million years ago is the ancestor of the ca... |
27 November 2007
12:07 GMT |
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The rarity and the tame look of the giant panda, resembling a living teddy bear, transformed this animal into the symbol of the fight for the preservation of endangered species. But have you ever thought that what you see is a bear? An odd bear, but a real bear! The line that led to panda appeared about 12 million ye... |
27 October 2007
07:38 GMT |
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This bear seems to have the shortest life of all the bear species: it appeared about 40,000 years ago, its ancestor being the brown bear (the species that includes the grizzly) and it could be gone till 2050 due to the Polar ice melting. By that year, at least 70 % of the polar bear populations will be gone and in Al... |
10 September 2007
03:07 GMT |
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There's no itch as far as the bears' habit of rubbing their back against trees is concerned. In fact, this has been found to be a scent mark, warning others to keep off from the real master of the place. Many theories tried to explain this habit. Some believed females could do it when they were at the peak ... |
6 September 2007
07:34 GMT |
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Humans conquered the entire Globe, but to the poles, the climate is too harsh to sustain human populations. So, a question rises: till which latitude can humans live?Well, it appears that the northernmost inhabited land is not Greenland, but the Svalbard archipelago, located north off Norway. Svalbard is made of 5 bi... |
30 August 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Some beliefs are due to a lack of scientific knowledge, some come from legends and others are the cause of misspellings from one language to another or even sensory illusions! Here are just 10 of them:1.Camels do not store water in their humps. This widespread belief comes from the fact that, while crossing the deser... |
7 July 2007
07:32 GMT |
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This seems like taken from the most surreal fiction, but you could soon say "Hallo" to creatures that preceded you in the evolution. A team studying Neanderthal DNA says it could be possible to build a complete Neanderthal genome, despite the degradation in time of its genetic material. The team led by Svante Paabo o... |
26 June 2007
09:16 GMT |
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The cute aspect of the giant panda, resembling a living teddy bear, turned this animal into the symbol of the fight for the preservation of endangered species. Even if a real bear, this species eats 99 % bamboo. Now researchers have discovered the fossil skull of the earliest known bear from the panda genus (Ailuropo... |
19 June 2007
06:21 GMT |
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The mere thought of touching a military robot gives me the creeps! I usually imagine them as having guns and rocket launchers, not to mention the scary look.So, imagine how thrilled I was to find out that the army might actually "hire" a sweet looking bear robot, which looks like a genuine Teddy Bear. Boys might say... |
12 June 2007
04:26 GMT |
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Bears do not really hibernate. They can awake very quickly from their winter sleep and their temperature, heart beat and pulse do not drop significantly. Anyway, they pass the winter in an immobility stage and they go out of their dens in a very good shape. In northern regions, like Canada or Siberia, bears can spend... |
7 May 2007
03:10 GMT |
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