Video in the player above shows Brookfield Zoo’s baby kangaroo drawing a crowd. BROOKFIELD, Ill. (WGN) — The polar bears at ...

Amelia Gray, a polar bear at the Oregon Zoo, is set to embark on a new chapter as she moves to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago ...

One of the Oregon Zoo's half-sister polar bears, Amelia Gray, is heading out east, the zoo announced Thursday.

On Thursday, Brookfield Zoo announced that Amelia Gray, an 8-year-old female, will be making the move from the Oregon Zoo to ...

A new polar bear is coming to Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. The zoo is welcoming 8-year-old Amelia Gray, coming from Oregon. She ...

BROOKFIELD, IL -- Guests at the Brookfield Zoo will soon have a new polar bear to view. Amelia Gray, an 8-year-old female ...

Amelia Gray, a polar bear who has called the Oregon Zoo home since 2021, will soon head to the Brookfield Zoo near Chicago ...

These anticipated declines have led to a proposal to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. A decision was due in January but has been delayed.

Polar bears are difficult to study for a variety of reasons. They live in isolated and inhospitable parts of the Arctic; their home range often exceeds 200,000 square kilometers; and the Arctic is ...

With the polar bear species in a fight for survival because of disappearing Arctic sea ice, a new distinct group of Greenland bears seem to have stumbled on an icy oasis that might allow a small remot ...

— Yes, polar bears and brown bears are sister species, closer to each other than they are to black bears. The two diverged maybe 4 million to 5 million years ago, the authors estimate.

It might make sense — if the polar bear were endangered. But the worldwide population of these bears has more than doubled since 1965, to an estimated 20,000-25,000 today.