The UK's oldest polar bear has been euthanised due to her deteriorating health, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) has said. Victoria, who was 28, had been receiving geriatric care at ...

With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquiliser dart at a polar bear. The predator bolted but soon slumped into the ...

On Monday afternoon, the Polar Bears athletic department produced a pair of signings that will allow seniors Brock Martin and Jackson Lintner to progress in their athletic careers following ...

And one bear in particular — Betty White — has been stealing the show. “She’s a big mover,” said Alysa McCall, a staff scientist and director of conservation outreach at Polar Bears ...

The UK’s oldest polar bear has been euthanised after experiencing age-related health problems, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) has said. Victoria, aged 28, had been receiving ...

She was the mother of Hamish, who in 2017 became the first polar bear cub to be born in the UK in 25 years. She later gave birth to Brodie in 2021, with whom she shared her pen. The wildlife ...

Victoria was euthanised on Tuesday morning. RZSS said that in the wild only a small percentage of polar bears live past 18 and described Victoria’s age as “testament to the world class care ...

Invigorating, empowering, mind-blowing, surreal. We had to stop shooting because a polar bear walked across the set, and that is something I’d never thought I would hear myself say. We lived on ...

This feeling of Serre’s also underpins and invigorates A Leopard-Skin Hat, her fourth work, which has been translated by Mark Hutchinson and was nominated for the International Booker prize. Published ...

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This feeling of Serre's also underpins and invigorates A Leopard-Skin Hat , her fourth work, which has been translated by Mark Hutchinson and was nominated for the International Booker prize.

and ‘A Leopard-Skin Hat’ by Anne Serre, translated from French by Mark Hutchinson. Max Porter, International Booker Prize 2025 Chair of judges, said: “This list is our celebration of fiction in ...