Polar bears are one of the largest mammals on land; only the African elephant can tower over the polar bear in this corner of ...

A cuddly polar bear cub climbed all over its mom in a tender moment captured at Wapusk National Park in Manitoba, Canada.

Comparing fur samples collected from animals in Svalbard, Norway, an international team of researchers first identified that ...

A remote community on the icy shores of Canada's Hudson Bay is struggling to maintain its polar bear population that drives ...

coming back onto land to eat their prey. Most mammalian hair can freeze when it gets wet in cold temperatures — think human ...

When scientists discovered polar bear populations were dropping rapidly, they created a framework to understand what is ...

coming back onto land to eat their prey. Most mammalian hair can freeze when it gets wet in cold temperatures — think human beards on a frosty winter day. But, Holst noticed, polar bear fur did ...