Beware the hot deal on a polar bear skin rug. The deal might not be all that is hot. A Pompey man is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the return of his hunting trophies ...

The polar bear’s emaciated body looked more like “a rug” than one of the world ... having been reduced to little more than skin and bone.” The bear was examined by Norwegian scientists ...

Wood declined to comment on the likelihood that Hickey’s extradition and the resulting court proceedings will be far more costly than the original cost or sale of the polar bear-skin rug.

Paul had warned me about the polar bear’s condition, but nothing could have prepared me for what I saw. The bear’s once white coat was molted and dirty. His once robust frame was skin and bones.

The first time Beverly Ann Esau cleaned a polar bear hide ... they might want to make a rug with the shape of the head." It took the trio 12 hours to skin the roughly seven-foot-long bear ...

White fur, blubbery skin, sharp claws ... Inuit people made sandals from polar bear pelts to move in almost complete silence across the ice. “I just thought: ‘Well, this is fascinating.

Beware the hot deal on a polar bear skin rug. The deal might not be all that is hot. A Pompey man is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the return of his hunting trophies ...