Polar bears aren?t exactly living large these days. Not only is their habitat shrinking due to global warming, but so are their genitals ? thanks to industrial pollutants.
A paper published in online edition of the journal Environmental Science and Technology detailed the bears? most recent plight. Researchers with the National Environmental Research Institute in Denmark looked at the genitals of 100 polar bears from Greenland and found that the higher the levels of certain industrial pollutants in their systems, the smaller their genitals, and therefore the less likely they were to be able to successfully reproduce.
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