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 ...

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 ...

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 at the University of Idaho have found a unique, non-invasive way to identify polar bears in the Arctic by scraping DNA from a bear’s paw print. In the face of diminishing Arctic sea ...

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 ...

Von Duyke was working to come up with a methodology to identify polar bears using the DNA left in snowy bear tracks. That was in November 2020. By the same time the next year, the research team ...

To do the study, the researchers collected snow from polar bear paw prints in the Arctic Alaskan villages of Utqiaġvik and Kaktovik. The team included both wildlife biologists and Iñupiat ...