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 into the usual stories. They deal with extreme cold, hunt in ways no other ...

It's a pretty risky business trying to take a blood sample from a polar bear -- one of the most dangerous predators on the ...

Polar bears are resilient animals. Scientists issue warning over worrisome conditions that could leave polar bears stranded — here's what you need to know first appeared on The Cool Down.

It began with a small ‘shape’ far out on the ice which one of the expedition staff recognised immediately as a bear. The ...

Research testing new technology to more effectively locate polar bear dens across the Arctic is showing promising results. Researchers hope that improving detection tools to locate dens -- which ...

It’s different from the polar bear photos that once saturated our media diet. Starting about two decades ago, National Geographic and the like began churning out images of lonely, hungry bears ...

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.