This experiment showed that the ice adhesion of unwashed polar bear fur is exceptionally low. While the often-accepted ...

After a summer of fasting on land, the bears need to get back to their frozen home to hunt seals and bulk up. But their migration ritual is changing.

Following "input from wildlife managers and Tribal requests," the changes also hope to create more consistent boundaries and ...

“Unwashed, greasy hair made it much harder for ice to stick. In contrast, when the polar bear hair was washed and the grease largely removed it performed similarly to human hair, to which ice sticks ...

Scientists have quantified how much climate change has driven the population decline of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson Bay.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is recommending changes to the state’s bear permit area boundaries. The agency ...

open image in gallery A polar bear hunts on the sea ice of Hudson Bay in Manitoba, Canada. New research has found the bears’ fur is the secret to why that ice does not attach to their fur ...

“That happened with me. We were in Churchill, Manitoba, and we were with a guide who’s a biologist. And this polar bear decided to just come over this hill and was walking towards us at 70 yards away.