Two young polar bear cubs and their mother | AndreAnita/iStock via Getty Images. At birth, polar bears weigh anywhere from 16 to 24 ounces—about what a guinea pig does. As newborns, they're ...

A British wildlife photographer has captured cool scenes of a polar bear seemingly doing yoga – and then chilling out. Paul ...

A polar bear vs Kodiak bear is important to distinguish, given that they are both two of the largest bears in the world.

Applying each group’s research strengths, the team demonstrated that the oils in polar bear fur contained a unique fatty acid profile that lent the hair its ice-resistant properties. The study, ...

This handout photo shows a polar bear that was shot by the police after being considered a threat to people nearby, authorities said, in Westfjords, Iceland, Thursday Sept. 19, 2024.

Polar bear fur also lacked a compound called squalene, the researchers found. Squalene is abundant in other marine mammals and has properties that make ice stick to it easily.

Despite the name, Bruno was a female bear that lived somewhere between 100,000 and 70,000 years ago and its genome has helped scientists narrow in on this brown bear-polar bear divergence.

Washing polar bear fur removed its ice resistance, suggesting that the oily coating on the hairs is the key to its properties. This substance, known as sebum, is secreted by glands connected to ...

The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo announced in a news release on Tuesday, July 23, that one of its 7-year-old male polar bears died by drowning after sustaining a 'crushing injury' to his trachea ...

In 1990, a polar bear killed a 28-year-old man who had been walking with his girlfriend early in the morning in Point Lay, about 300 miles north of Wales. In 1993, ...