Are pandas and grizzly bears related?

Answer 1

The grizzly is a race of the brown bear, and the brown and polar bears are very closely related. The two species diverged around 100,000 years ago.

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. According to both fossil and DNA evidence, 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.

Answer 2

Polar bears are relatives to other bears: black bears, sun bears, brown bears. All of these are related, they're in the bear family, these and others.

Answer 3

No, they are different species.

No. Grizzly bears are a subspecies of brown bear. Polar bears are a descendant species of the brown bear, but the two species are separate.

Answer 4

No. Pandas are not even bears.

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Giant panda is the bear - within the mammal bear family, unlike small species of panda, such as the Red panda.

Answer 5

All members of Ursidae are related at least distantly, but the polar bear's nearest relative is the brown bear.

Answer 6

No. Polar bears and grizzly bears are two different animals, two very different species.

Answer 7

Polar and brown bears are related, yes. They share a common ancestor. The grizzly bear is merely a race of the brown bear.

Answer 8

Yes, the giant panda is considered a bear and falls in the same family as other bears - Ursidae. However, they do not fall in the same genus as the polar bear.

Answer 9

No, they are two separate species.