A mother polar bear in Northern Canada appeared to have "adopted" a cub not biologically her own. This is an extremely rare ...

Researchers have tracked how the mother, who also has a biological cub, has taken in a second young bear in a rarely ...

Scientists were recently greeted with a most unexpected surprise when a polar bear mother and her cub were walking near ...

It's only the 13th known case of adoption out of the 4,600 bears studied for nearly five decades in the northern Canadian ...

The cubs are about 10 to 11 months old and are known as Cubs of the Year (COYS). According to Polar Bears International, both ...

A rare scene of a female polar bear in Canada adopting an orphaned cub and caring for it alongside her biological offspring ...

As researchers watched polar bears making their way towards Churchill in mid-November, they took note that the mother, who ...

Researchers could not believe their eyes when they witnessed that a mother polar bear in northern Canada had adopted a cub ...

A female polar bear in western Hudson Bay has adopted an orphaned cub, a rare event highlighting unexpected social behaviour ...

Researchers in northern Canada have observed a rare case of polar bear adoption, capturing video footage of a wild female ...

A rumor that circulated online in December 2025 claimed that a pair of trail camera photos authentically showed a mother bear ...