Although many of us have been avoiding the outdoors during this round of Arctic weather in the metro, the Zoo and Aquarium ...

On Saturday morning, the Kansas City Zoo celebrated International Polar Bear Day by giving their 8-year-old male bear, Nuniq ...

It’s really, really cold again – as the US shivers through at least the eighth blast of air from the Arctic this winter. Here ...

The United States has been at the epicenter of the planet’s most unusually cold conditions early in 2025. The polar vortex is to blame.

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 ...

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

The image of a grief-stricken orca carrying her dead calf for miles, described in the recent column in the Kitsap Sun by Rep. Greg Nance, “Saving Puget Sound’s salmon and orca starts with kelp,” was ...

The cub, a female named Nur, was born on Nov. 17. She is expected to begin adapting to the enclosure where she can be seen by ...

The Apennine brown bear, also known as the Marsican brown bear (Ursus arctos marsicanus), is a unique and critically endangered subspecies of brown bear found only in the remote and rugged Apennine ...

The world’s most northernmost town Longyearbyen is part of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Every winter, its 2000-strong population experiences the Polar Night, when everything is ...