Polar Pioneers

Ice ice birdy! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Arctic birds are ecosystem all-stars. But when did they first take on the poles? Enter Patrick S. Druckenmiller and team from University of Alaska’s Museum of the North! They discovered Arctic bird fossils from seventy million

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Bear-ly Apart

Bears on the move? It’s paw-sible! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Polar bears live in the FREEZING arctic. And brown bears prefer warmer forests. But sometimes they overlap, and have cubs together! What the—? Tianying Lan from the University of Buffalo and team investigated.

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