A photo of a polar bear sleeping in a bed of flowers in the Arctic won the 2024 Nature Photography Contest, the competition ...

Female polar bears give birth in December or early January when the cubs are blind, hairless and weigh just 0.5 kg.

That's because polar bear fur is transparent and hollow.When light strikes the outer fur some of it is absorbed while the rest is scattered away. The result? The fur can appear as different colors ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...