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Melting sea ice causes polar bears to lose their traditional hunting grounds. You'd be surprised at the lengths they go to ...
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.
The polar bears' close proximity to the town has also sparked a tourism boom. But, while locals are familiar with the roaming bears and know how to handle them, the town’s mayor worries the ...
Despite the name, Bruno was a female bear that lived somewhere between 100,000 and 70,000 years ago and its genome has helped scientists narrow in on this brown bear-polar bear divergence.