Staff at the Alaska Zoo performed a root canal on one of its polar bears after the bear broke a canine tooth. Kova, 4, shares an enclosure with another polar bear named Cranbeary. The two have toys, ...
The federal government halted boat polar bear viewing in Kaktovik over five years ago, following criticism from the community ...
Polar bears depend on frozen ocean surfaces more than any other land predator. The ice functions as a platform where they ...
Cold-climate animals are remarkably adaptable creatures, specialized for survival in some of the harshest temperatures in our ...
A polar bear in Alaska has reportedly become the first of its kind to die from H5N1 avian influenza. Gerlach explains that although bears typically eat seals and fish, it is possible that the virus ...
The polar bear is one of the most impressive animals on Earth. It is the largest of the world’s eight bear species, and adult ...
A new polar bear genetics study has come up with a relatively recent estimate for the time when those bears separated into a species apart from brown bears. The study, conducted by an international ...
As climate change reshapes Arctic food webs, ringed seals will swim into risky polar bear territory if the menu is varied enough. This is the central finding of a new study published in Ecology ...