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Alaska's "Polar Bear Lizard" Is The Tiny T-Rex Of The Ancient Arctic
A tyrannosaur that lived 70 million years ago in Alaska wasn't nearly as big as Tyrannosaurus rex, but it wasn't as small as ...
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Rare attack in Alaska renews interest in polar bear patrols
But this week, a polar bear attack killed a mother and her 1-year-old son in Wales, a tiny, remote Alaska whaling village whose bear patrol had lapsed. The incident — the first fatal polar bear ...
My Wife and I Tried to Walk Home in an Arctic Storm. We Almost Died
When two schoolteachers living in Point Lay, Alaska, decided to try heading home in a blizzard, they nearly loose their way ...
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SAVING THE POLAR BEAR
Big Oil and the state of Alaska brought a suit challenging the polar bear's critical habitat decision — forcing the Fish and Wildlife Service to rethink its landmark designation — but in February 2016 ...
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How Do Polar Bears Keep Ice Off Their Fur? New Study Reveals the Secret—and It Could Improve Technology
potentially unlocking alternatives to harmful “forever chemicals” used in ice-resistant coatings today Sara Hashemi Daily Correspondent A polar bear near Kaktovik, Alaska. New research reveals ...
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Meet the bowhead whale hunters of northern Alaska
On the North Slope of Alaska, the culture of the Inupiat centers ... carries a rifle during whale hunts to use in case a polar bear attacks. Polar bears have been known to approach hunting camps ...
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Polar bear: icon on ice
"I will never forget my 'first' polar bear. Today, it still drives me to do all we can to ... Polar bears range across the Arctic Ocean, in parts of Canada, Alaska, Russia, Greenland and Norway ...