Post by L Roebuck on Mar 8, 2008 7:15:09 GMT -5
Mystery of the polar bear whose remains were found in Scotland
Steve Connor, Science Editor
The remains of the last known wild polar bear to live in Britain are to be investigated by scientists hoping to find out what it ate and how it is related to its modern-day Arctic cousins.
A polar bear skull excavated from a cave at Inchnadamph in the Scottish Highlands is the only known remains of the species in Britain. It probably dates to about 18,000 years ago when massive ice sheets covered much of the country at the height of the last ice age.
The creature's bones were first unearthed in 1927 but it was only when the remains were recently re-evaluated that scientists realised that they once belonged to a polar bear that lived at a time when the climate in Britain was in the grip of a deep freeze.
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Steve Connor, Science Editor
The remains of the last known wild polar bear to live in Britain are to be investigated by scientists hoping to find out what it ate and how it is related to its modern-day Arctic cousins.
A polar bear skull excavated from a cave at Inchnadamph in the Scottish Highlands is the only known remains of the species in Britain. It probably dates to about 18,000 years ago when massive ice sheets covered much of the country at the height of the last ice age.
The creature's bones were first unearthed in 1927 but it was only when the remains were recently re-evaluated that scientists realised that they once belonged to a polar bear that lived at a time when the climate in Britain was in the grip of a deep freeze.
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