He's after a more revered and rare creature: what the Gitga'at call mooksgm'ol, the spirit bear, a walking contradiction—a white black bear. Neither albino nor polar bear, the spirit bear (also ...

It harbours all kinds of wondrous creatures, of which the most striking is surely the spirit bear, says Oliver Berry in the Financial Times. Long thought to be cousins of the polar bear ...

The spirit bear is a rarity – a black bear with recessive genes ... channel to collect the oil – one spill could wipe out an entire coastal ecosystem. A polar bear specialist and marine biologist, ...