Polar bear fur also lacked a compound called squalene, the researchers found. Squalene is abundant in other marine mammals and has properties that make ice stick to it easily.

Polar bear fur also lacked a compound called squalene, the researchers found. Squalene is abundant in other marine mammals, and has properties that make ice stick to it easily.

Polar bear fur contains a cocktail of greasy compounds that make it exceptionally resistant to freezing, Holst and her colleagues reported last week in Science Advances.

Polar bears need all the help they can get to survive their frosty Arctic environment.One of their biggest survival secrets appears to be greasy hair.The sebum–or hair grease–on their fur ...

Polar bears might be greasier than widely believed.. The bears’ greasy fur is the secret to the popular species’ survival in one of Earth’s most punishing climates. The grease, also known as ...

For the study, some 58 bears in Canada were tracked between 2016 and 2021. Ear tags were used alongside three different fur tag designs to compare their accuracy and the length of time they ...

While we see photos and videos of white polar bears, their fur is actually not white in colour. In fact, the polar bear’s coat has no white pigment; Their long outer hairs, ...

Polar bear fur also lacked a compound called squalene, the researchers found. Squalene is abundant in other marine mammals and has properties that make ice stick to it easily.

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 ...

This combination makes polar bear fur highly resistant to freezing, Holst says. Lab tests showed that it performed about as well as fluorinated ski waxes, which have been banned in Norway for ...

Polar bear fur also lacked a compound called squalene, the researchers found. Squalene is abundant in other marine mammals and has properties that make ice stick to it easily.

Polar bears spend their days jumping from ice into water. So if they get all wet, why doesn't their fur freeze? Well, a recent study in the journal Science Advances investigated that very question ...