Did you know? Polar bears aren’t technically white, their clear, hollow fur and black skin create a brilliant white illusion ...

Bears are a type of mammal that can be found in many parts of the world. From the tiny, silly-looking sun bear to the iconic polar bear, these animals are specially adapted to different environments, ...

Happy International Polar Bear Day! For 21 years, conservation nonprofit Polar Bears International has celebrated these vulnerable bears with a day of conservation action and learning. Right now, ...

What do the phrases “reflective coat,” “largest land carnivore in the world” and “endangered species” have in common? They all have to do with polar bears! Their Latin name, Ursus maritimus, means sea ...

Kiska the polar bear has been a charismatic character at the Albuquerque BioPark since 1997, wowing visitors with his white coat, huge paws and playful demeanor. Zoo-goers celebrated their bear for ...

Their icy hunting grounds are rapidly shrinking, but polar bears in Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago have defied the odds ...

This study was funded by grants from the Natural Environment Research Council (NE/S011188/1) and the European Research Council (SELECTHAPLOID - 101001341) The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in ...

Meet our story’s protagonist: a female polar bear. Displaced by shrinking sea ice in the Arctic, she was forced to wander south, deeper into the Canadian Northwest Territories. Here, our lady in white ...

Rising temperatures and rapidly melting sea ice threaten polar bears across the Arctic. But the bears living 800 miles north of the Arctic Circle have stayed surprisingly fat, researchers report ...