While the cause of such breeding may not be natural, what with climate change driving both migrations, the effect is. According to some scientists, the hybrid species may be in the process of selecting the best traits of both the polar and the grizzly bear to give them advantages in such warming northern habitats. And the pizzlies (or perhaps grolars) may be here to stay. Usually hybrids aren t better suited to their environments than their parents, but there is a possibility that these hybrids might be able to forage for a broader range of food sources, Larisa DeSantis, a paleontologist and associate professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee who recently published a study in the journal Global Change Biology, told Live Science.
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Apr 14 2021, 6:45 ET
Updated: Apr 14 2021, 7:42 ET
CRITICALLY endangered polar bears have been mating with grizzly bears and the result is a new pizzly bear hybrid.
This is according to experts who claimed to have spotted the pizzly bears in Alaska.
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The pizzly bear hybrid is a cross between a polar bear and a grizzly bearCredit: Getty
It s thought grizzlies and polar bears are struggling to cope with climate change but their hybrid is better adapted to warming.
Paleontologist Larisa DeSantis told DailyMail.com: This new type of bear is more resilient to climate change and better suited for warmer temperatures.
Climate change could mean the end for polar bears who rely on sea ice
Experts found that the animals have not adapted to warming periods in the past
They say polar bears have stuck with their diet of fat and flesh for 1,000s of years
As a result of a warming Arctic, grizzly bears are moving farther north
Polar bears and grizzly bears are now mating to create pizzly bears
The hybrid is more resilient to climate change and better suited to warming