Two young polar bear cubs and their mother | AndreAnita/iStock via Getty Images. At birth, polar bears weigh anywhere from 16 to 24 ounces—about what a guinea pig does. As newborns, they're ...

Reigning as the largest land predators, polar bears are the true kings of the Arctic. With body lengths reaching up to 3 ...

Enjoying these sizzling summer days? Imagine if you were the lone polar bear at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium. Actually, zoo ...

You probably know polar bears as the big white animals roaming the Arctic, but there’s a lot about them that doesn’t make it ...

Each year, polar bears in Canada's Hudson Bay face a race against the seasons. As summer rolls in and sea ice melts, their ...

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.

This handout photo shows a polar bear that was shot by the police after being considered a threat to people nearby, authorities said, in Westfjords, Iceland, Thursday Sept. 19, 2024.

Washing polar bear fur removed its ice resistance, suggesting that the oily coating on the hairs is the key to its properties. This substance, known as sebum, is secreted by glands connected to ...

The last fatal polar bear attack to occur in Alaska was in December 1990. Similar to Tuesday's, the 1990 attack was unprovoked. York said that in 1990, it had been a thin and hungry bear.

In 1990, a polar bear killed a 28-year-old man who had been walking with his girlfriend early in the morning in Point Lay, about 300 miles north of Wales. In 1993, ...

The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo announced in a news release on Tuesday, July 23, that one of its 7-year-old male polar bears died by drowning after sustaining a 'crushing injury' to his trachea ...