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What is the polar bear evolution?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

According to fossil and DNA evidence the polar bear evolved from the brown bear.

Bears, in the taxonomic family of Ursidae, split off from other Carnivorans about 38 million years ago. Then the Ursinae subfamily originated around 4.2 million years ago. The polar bear split from the grouping of the brown bear, Ursus arctos, roughly 200,000 years ago. This is thought to have happened due to their isolation during a period of glaciation in the Pleistocene period.

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