grabbing genetic material left behind in the animals’ paw prints. From this, they’ve not only been able to determine the species (the polar bear footprint is, admittedly, a bit of a giveaway ...

A 17-year-old schoolboy mauled to death by a polar bear during an adventure holiday had found a paw print just two days prior to the lethal attack, an inquest has heard. Horatio Chapple was on an ...

Horatio Chapple was described as "a fine young gentleman with amazing potential" A 17-year-old boy who was mauled to death by a polar bear on an Arctic exhibition found a paw print two days ...

The team investigated a total of 130 polar bear paw prints and was able to successfully isolate DNA from 46 percent of them. In a second paper, published in the same journal this week, a different ...

Researchers can now extract environmental DNA from paw prints left in the snow by threatened species ... the team managed to retrieve nuclear DNA from 87.5% of wild polar bear tracks and 59.1% of wild ...

A 17-year-old boy who was mauled to death by a polar bear on an Arctic exhibition found a paw print two days earlier, an inquest has heard. Horatio Chapple, from Salisbury, was on an adventure ...

A 17-year-old Eton schoolboy mauled to death by a polar bear during an adventure holiday had found a paw print just two days before the lethal attack, an inquest has heard. Horatio Chapple was ...