As the polar bear walks across the snow, it deposits microscopic epidermal material, transferred from paw to the ground.The team used trowels to scrape a thin layer of snow off these prints, then ...

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 had seen polar bear paw prints just days before the attack, as Jon Kay reports. Mr Child told the court that when he later stood at Mr Chapple's feet "there was no sign of movement".

MOSCOW, Idaho (KIFI) — University of Idaho researchers have found a unique, non-invasive way to identify polar bears in the Arctic by scraping DNA from a bear’s paw print.

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, ...

Scientists use paw prints to track polar bear numbers A Canadian researcher is using new technology to try to "fingerprint" polar bears in an effort to discover how hunting and climate change are ...

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 ...

U of I research team identifies polar bears using DNA found in paw prints Aug. 27, 2023 Updated Sun., Aug. 27, 2023 at 9:38 p.m.

A teenager who was mauled to death by a polar bear on an Arctic exhibition found a paw print two days earlier, an inquest is told.