A grizzly–polar-bear hybrid (also named grolar bear, pizzly bear, zebra bear, [1][2] grizzlar, or nanulak) is a rare ursid hybrid that has occurred both in captivity and in the wild.

Nov 4, 2021 · The pizzly bear, a hybrid of polar and grizzly bears, exhibits unique physical characteristics from both parent species. Typically, they have long claws like grizzlies, which aid in …

May 22, 2025 · A Pizzly Bear is the hybrid offspring of a polar bear and a grizzly bear. Technically, “Pizzly” isn’t the “official” name of these unique hybrids, but just one of the many possible terms.

If the father is a polar bear and the mother a brown bear, the offspring would be called the pizzly bear. If the father was a grizzly and the mother a polar bear, biologists have suggested they are called the …

Apr 6, 2024 · Call it a pizzly or maybe a grolar bear. Either way, scientists determined the animal was the rare offspring of a polar bear that mated with a grizzly, and as the Arctic melts and polar bears...

Apr 23, 2021 · Endangered polar bears are breeding with grizzly bears, creating hybrid “pizzly” bears, and it's being driven by climate change, scientists say.

Aug 19, 2025 · A pizzly bear is a hybrid offspring resulting from the crossbreeding of a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) and a grizzly bear, specifically the North American brown bear subspecies (Ursus arctos …

Grizzly bears dominate the territory that they share with polar bears because they are better adapted to the varied climate, terrain, and available food sources. Unlike polar bears, grizzlies follow an …

Oct 2, 2023 · Pizzlies are hybrids born as a result of inter-species romping between a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) and a polar bear (Ursus maritimus).

Apr 19, 2021 · Well, this crazy bear hybrid actually exists! They're known as 'pizzly bears' or 'grolar bears' and are a blend between two species.