Baby polar bear is probably female
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It's a girl! Maybe. Zoo officials in Nuremberg announced Wednesday that Germany's new polar bear cub is probably a female. The cub's eyes are not yet open and its sexual organs not completely developed, so there's still a chance she could be a he, the Nuremberg zoo's deputy director Helmut Maegdefrau told reporters.
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Federal marine mammal experts in Alaska studying the effects of global warming on walrus, polar bears and ice seals warn there are limit to the protections they can provide.
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By Mike Peters, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 23--From the mud and the slop and the deep snow and cold river, a minor hero emerged Thursday, cradling a newborn calf, carrying it back to its mother.
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Global warming could cause polar bears to go extinct by the end of the century by eroding the sea ice that sustains them, according to the most comprehensive international assessment ever done of Arctic climate change.
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The Bowdoin women's basketball team is riding high, as usual. The Polar Bears are 21-1, ranked first in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association Division 3 national poll and second in the D3hoops.com poll.
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By Kie Relyea, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Jun. 20--If you see a baby harbor seal alone on a Whatcom County beach, don't assume it's been abandoned and needs rescue.
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Female polar bears weigh nearly 150 pounds (65 kilograms) less on average than they did 25 years ago, because the ice on which they hunt is melting earlier, research shows.
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The baby panda born earlier this month at Zoo Atlanta is a girl.
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The Berlin zoo's polar bear, Knut Â who garnered worldwide fame by being hand-raised by his keepers from a pint-sized fluffball to adulthood Â now has company.
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More than two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be killed off by 2050 &#151; including the entire population in Alaska &#151; because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic, government scientists forecast Friday.
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A federal agency is poised to say whether global warming means the bear should be added to the 'threatened species' list.
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MCMURDO STATION, Antarctica  - The first Adelie penguin chicks of the season -- black fluffballs small enough to hold in the hand -- started hatching this month, and the simple fact that there are more of them in the south and fewer of them further north is a sign of global warming, scientists say.
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Knut, Berlin Zoo&#39;s celebrity polar bear cub, is growing from a cuddly ball of fur into a shaggy, powerful predator who could soon pose a serious threat to his devoted human keeper who has nursed him from birth.
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A new movie showing  young polar bears and walruses struggling toward adulthood in a  melting Arctic puts a pair of charismatic faces on the global  warming threat.
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Polar bears could be decades from extinction, a survey into global warming has found. Steve Connor reports on the crisis that threatens the polar ice-cap.
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Choosy Antarctic female fur seals go to great lengths to find the right mate.
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Rising temperatures in the Arctic will likely increase the region&#39;s biodiversity as new species are drawn to the extreme north, but in a dramatic paradox many animals unique to the region, such as polar bears, risk extinction.