After a summer of fasting on land, the bears need to get back to their frozen home to hunt seals and bulk up. But their migration ritual is changing.

The Western Hudson Bay polar bears are the most famous, and most photographed, polar bears in the world. Their home is the ...

This experiment showed that the ice adhesion of unwashed polar bear fur is exceptionally low. While the often-accepted ...

The zoo is getting an early jump on the annual celebration of all things polar bear with a serious of educational and ...

Scientists have quantified how much climate change has driven the population decline of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson Bay.

More than 100 million people are facing frigid conditions across the eastern and central US, including the entire state of ...

I remember saying: 'Hey, bear' – as if this were just another magical moment in the Arctic wild. A polar bear was standing on its hind legs just a few paces from me. Its nose looked like a fist ...

These new findings also reinforce Indigenous knowledge about the Arctic-dwelling bears, per the paper. Inuit people have taken advantage of the sebum’s properties, even affixing shoe-like ...

“Unwashed, greasy hair made it much harder for ice to stick. In contrast, when the polar bear hair was washed and the grease largely removed it performed similarly to human hair, to which ice sticks ...

the Arctic Polar Bear could be the first species to be listed as threatened with extinction due to Global Warming. The real bears’ existence in the wild is not so idyllic: they’ve been caught ...

Now, researchers have discovered the bears have another unexpected Arctic adaptation: greasy fur. It’s a trait that, surprisingly, might help us find alternatives to “forever chemicals,” a ...