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March 12, 2006

Wager Bay Polar Bear, Canada, 1996

Photograph by Flip Nicklin

"Eighteenth-century European scientists named [polar bears] Ursus maritimus, meaning 'sea bear,' and that they truly are, spending most of their lives on sea ice."

—Text from "Polar Bears: Stalkers of the High Arctic," January 1998, National Geographic magazine.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, same article)