The 18th annual BEAR’ly Open will return to White Bear Lake this weekend after the golf-on-ice event was canceled last year due to lack of ice. When: Friday, Jan. 31, 7 to 11 p.m. Where ...
According to Polar Bears International, these layers keep them so warm that adult males can quickly overheat when they run. Ice also does not accumulate on it, despite the bears spending nearly ...
Polar bears have a hidden-in-a-plain-sight superpower that anyone who has watched a wildlife documentary could have spotted: ice doesn’t stick to their fur. This has long been known to ...
According to a recent study published in Science Advances, a greasy hair day keeps the ice away — for polar bears, that is. After examining polar bear fur, an international research team identified ...
Polar bears need all the help they can get to survive their frosty Arctic environment. One of their biggest survival secrets appears to be greasy hair. The sebum–or hair grease–on their fur makes it ...
Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ... Speleothem and Ice Cores: Natural Climate Archives Offer New Insights Into the Climate History of Central Europe Jan. 16 ...
It is made up of cholesterol, diacylglycerols and fatty acids, which make it very hard for ice to attach to their fur. The finding sheds new light on the polar bear species but also Inuit ecology.