May 11, 2006—DNA analysis has confirmed that a bear shot in the Canadian Arctic last month is a half-polar bear, half-grizzly hybrid. While the two bear species have interbred in zoos, this is the first evidence of a wild polar bear-grizzly offspring.
-- National Geographic News
National Geographic failed to mention that this interbreeding has gone on in bars since as early as 1998, as evidenced in this old New Yorker cartoon of mine:
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Haha! Eat your heart out NatGeo.
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