A photo of a polar bear sleeping in a bed of flowers in the Arctic won the 2024 Nature Photography Contest, the competition ...

“Haley is such a special and inquisitive bear,” said Mike Murray, VP of life sciences for the Detroit Zoological Society. “We ...

Nora, it appears, is an expert diver. A video shared by the zoo Tuesday morning shows the bear — whose journey to the Rose ...

Researchers found compounds produced in polar bear skin that were as ice resistant as PFAS, offering potential novel ...

Scientists combined satellite collars and cameras to study polar bear denning, showing how cubs adapt before leaving.

She never had cubs but the zoo said Haley was known for being a "bright, inquisitive bear who enjoys enrichment, especially ...

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, ...

Polar bear cubs have been filmed emerging from their dens for the first time. The extremely rare footage was captured by remote cameras deployed in the Arctic mountains for nearly a decade.

According to the group’s findings, which have been published in Science Advances, the key lies in polar bear’s sebum—a natural skin oil secreted from glands beneath their fur. This oily ...

Churchill, Canada — Here on the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, photographers and scientists like Geoff York. Buggies traverse the ...