The animals are a key draw for people embarking on sailings to Norwegian-ruled archipelago Svalbard, as they can be observed ...

In the cold of the Norwegian Arctic, meteorologist Trond Robertsen manually recorded precipitation levels for over two ...

However, these rare hybrid grizzly–polar bears have started ... not just humans. As global temperatures continue to rise, the two species of bear are slowly congregating together more and ...

A rare polar bear that was spotted outside a cottage in ... Although attacks by polar bears on humans are extremely rare, a study in Wildlife Society Bulletin in 2017 said the loss of sea ice ...

Don’t believe us? Well, just take a look at this mighty adorable polar bear at a wildlife conservation center in Staffordshire, UK, having the time of his life playing with his brand-new red ball.

Most mammalian hair can freeze when it gets wet in cold temperatures — think human beards on a frosty winter day. But, Holst noticed, polar bear fur did not freeze after getting wet. Sponsor ...

They then compared the performance of polar bear hair with human hair and two human-made ski skins. A polar bear’s insulating fur shown under infrared heat imaging taken with a FLIR E75 24o ...