according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances. Senior author Bodil Holst, a physicist at the University of Bergen in Norway, was inspired to investigate polar bear fur ...

Past research has shown that how long polar bear mothers remain at their dens impacts cubs' odds of survival. Yet why they stick around for so long and what they're doing remains poorly understood ...

The Canadian town of Churchill has already had more than four times as many polar bear visitors this year compared with the same time last year, and many more could soon be on the way. The sisters ...

This technology aims to reduce potential conflicts between polar bear habitats and human activity. Dr Megan Owen, Vice President of Wildlife Conservation Science at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance ...

A polar bear! Its thick fur helps it to hide and keep warm in the freezing cold. Plus an Arctic fox. It can hear its prey, deep under the snow. And a bird! The snowy owl. They nest on the ground ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...

the lead author of a Science Advances paper on the findings. “Our results suggest that we could replace these fluorinated substances with these sebum components.” Carolan and colleagues obtained these ...

They also belong to different species. So when a male polar bear cub named Snow White and a female brown bear cub named Ramona were put together in a cage at the Washington Zoo more than ten years ...

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While science has established that there is a strong connection between melting sea ice and polar bears dying off, there is no way to know for certain why this bear was on the verge of death.