"Polar bears are, except for killer whales, probably the most polluted animals on our globe," Christian Sonne, a biologist at Aarhus University in Denmark and lead author on the research, told VICE News.
These legs bear claws except for the last pair.
After rigorous testing, they all turned out to be bear parts, except for one "yeti tooth" that actually belonged to a dog, according to the Washington Post.
The five PSS (positions number 8, 9, 10, 16, 56) which Furlong et al. reported as canine-specific (i.e. not overlapping with PSS in primates and bovines) did not overlap with brown bear PSS, except for position 9, which is an ABS.
Neither of us thought the expression any the less eloquent for the fact that Australia has no bears except koalas.
And when they sang as a group, they looked and sounded disjointed, the Bad News Bears of "Idol" (except for Stefano Langone, who appeared to still be fishing for votes five weeks after his elimination).
He said, by way of example, that for years a fable had persisted about the mosque, which bears no sign except for the single word "Him" in Arabic calligraphy on its white-clapboard siding: that it is not a mosque at all, but a cult house where mysterious practices occur.
The impact of creatine supplementation on the pregnant uterus bears consideration, but except for a small study on the effects of creatine on structure of the rat myometrium [ 106], the involvement of creatine in myometrial activity, and the increased activity associated with labour, has been little studied.
This has always been a population that's sort of sitting on the edge — we don't see polar bears any further south except for the Ontario population.
Recently, a study on mitochondrial genome sequences (mtDNAs) of all extant bears presented for the first time an almost completely resolved bear phylogeny with support for most of the problematic nodes in the bear family tree, except for the position of the sloth bear [ 4].
And, because medical costs aren't fully borne by the consumer (except for a co-pay that isn't related to the market price of the service) we as consumers can't gauge whether the service is worth the cost or even demand that innovation bring the cost down.
