This handout photo shows a polar bear that was shot by the police after being considered a threat to people nearby, authorities said, in Westfjords, Iceland, Thursday Sept. 19, 2024.

Polar bear equipped with camera collar reveals details of life in the melting Arctic 04:34. Polar bears, unable to thrive on land in Canada's Hudson Bay, are facing greater risk of starvation as ...

This polar bear's darker face and body shape might lead some to think it's a hybrid, but only genetic testing can say for sure. Photograph By Steven J. Kazlowski / Alamy. By Kristen Pope.

Despite the name, Bruno was a female bear that lived somewhere between 100,000 and 70,000 years ago and its genome has helped scientists narrow in on this brown bear-polar bear divergence.

The bear retreated to the woods, where it was found dead from its injuries. Couple survives terrifying polar bear attack after desperate struggle: 'Fight as long as you can' first appeared on The ...

Researchers looked at polar bear subpopulations that had experienced at least 10 years with ice-free seasons from 1979 — when satellite imagery of sea ice first became available — to 2020.

A grizzly bear rests on a rock. They are capable of mating with polar bears to produce pizzlies, AFP Contributor/Getty Images. "Usually hybrids aren't better suited to their environments than ...

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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 ...

A polar bear is seen in Essen Bay off the coast of Prince George Land, an island in the Franz Josef Land archipelago, Aug. 22, 2021. Ekaterina Anisimova/AFP via Getty Images, FILE.

A polar bear cub and mother west of Cape Tatnam on the Hudson Bay coast in Canada, Dec. 23, 2023. Boomer Jerritt—Solent News/Shutterstock ...