The Ice Bear, as he is often called, also became the first person to complete a long distance swim in every ocean in the world.
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Gripping the ice with his sharp claws, the polar bear leaned over the edge of the ice, sniffing the air and taking in the foreign scent of the 50 sweaty, sunburnt tourists, expedition leaders and crew.
Inuit hunters are finding the sea ice too thin to bear their sleds.
While the English case didn't bear specifically on his work, it got Mr. Ice thinking about the concept of ownership of a debt, he says.
In a clip of the show, a bear could be seen scratching at and shaking the box, dubbed the "ice cube", with Buchanan inside.
Radiocarbon dating found the skull was from the peak of the last Ice Age ruling out it was a cave bear, or a brown bear.
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Several hours later, in the honey-dipped low light of the midnight sun, a polar bear was spotted on an ice floe, finishing his dinner.
Last year, the American Association for the Advancement of Science got into a bit of a pinch when its flagship magazine, Science, was caught in the photoshop with a faked image of a lone polar bear on a tiny ice floe.
Among the state-of-the-art special effects included a giant, sparkling polar bear rising from the stadium floor and hovering over performers on a simulated ice floe.
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Obviously the Arctic Ocean was nearly or completely ice-free at the end of summer for centuries or even millennia, and still the polar bear survived and the Inuit culture radiated.
The U.S. says that shrinking Arctic ice habitat, a product of a warming climate, puts polar bear populations in a precarious position.
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