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

Credit: Toronto Zoo/Cover Images With North America marking Groundhog Day on Sunday (2February) Toronto Zoo’s polar bears had ...

Polar bears are not just the largest bear species on earth they also hold the distinction of being the only species of bear that has been documented ...

Polar bears might be greasier than widely believed. The bears’ greasy fur is the secret to the popular species’ survival in ...

Comparing fur samples collected from animals in Svalbard, Norway, an international team of researchers first identified that ...

A tyrannosaur that lived 70 million years ago in Alaska wasn't nearly as big as Tyrannosaurus rex, but it wasn't as small as ...

The anti-icing secret of polar bear fur, the critical factor that allows the animals to survive and thrive in punishing cold climates, has finally been explained. It is all down to a distinct form ...

Polar bears in Western Hudson Bay have seen their population nearly halved over the last several decades, largely due to dwindling sea ice and limited hunting opportunities, according to the findings ...

To investigate the relationship between declining sea ice and polar bear populations, Louise Archer and colleagues ... note that this framework, although developed for polar bears, is adaptable to ...

On this week's episode: asteriod Bennu has building blocks of life, how polar bears keep ice off their fur, a dog discovers a ...

Julia StrattonLocal Journalism Initiative ReporterCanada's National ObserverA fat polar bear is a bear more likely to thrive ...