Nano-physicist Bodil Holst's interest in polar bear fur began while she was watching a German quiz show. “I learned that polar bears are invisible in infrared cameras, meaning their fur has the same ...

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A Canadian man leaped to the defense of his wife after a polar bear lunged toward her in a dramatic ambush by the animal in rural Ontario. According to the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service ...

Polar bears survive by hunting on sea ice, which makes them especially vulnerable to climate change. New research shows that sea ice loss can present other, less obvious threats to the species as ...

A team of molecular ecologists at the University of Copenhagen, in Denmark, has found that polar bears developed unique features that allowed them to survive in a harsh, cold environment just ...

Scientists have developed a new way of tracking polar bears and it could help us better understand how they cope with disappearing sea ice. This breakthrough in stick-on GPS tracking tags will ...

The Wild Canada zone at the Wilder Institute Calgary Zoo was closed Friday after one of the zoo’s two polar bears — a seven-year-old male named Baffin — did not resurface from the pool and died.

In reality, hibernation is much more complex than that. Are polar bears on that list? They don't take a long winter's nap the way you may think. Polar bears are not "true hibernators," Polar Bears ...

For polar bears, the climate change diet is a losing proposition, a new study suggests. With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change, many polar bears have to shift their diets to land during ...

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. When you ...

So when it came time to develop a heat-trapping fabric, a team of researchers looked to polar bears, whose outer layers allow them to withstand temperatures as low as -50 °F (-46 °C).