UNITED KINGDOM–(ENEWSPF)–8 July 2011. Scientists have discovered that modern polar bears are descended from now extinct brown bears that roamed the region we know today as Britain and Ireland. It is thought that polar bears moved into this area just before, or during the last Ice Age, where they mated with female brown bears.
The maternal lineage of the extinct Irish brown bear can still be traced to all modern polar bears today, according to…
