“Unwashed, greasy hair made it much harder for ice to stick. In contrast, when the polar bear hair was washed and the grease ...

Polar bears don’t have to worry about skipping a wash day. The sebum, or natural oil, on the mammals’ fur helps them survive ...

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

Indigenous peoples of the Arctic traditionally use polar bear fur for its ice-resistant properties, but the science behind ...

There's something about polar bears that's always puzzled the people who study them. How do they seem to repel snow?

“There was just a group of wildlife enthusiasts and photographers that found out about this opportunity to go out on an early version of the Tundra Buggy to do polar bear photography, Cutting ...

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

He wondered whether the global population of 25,000 polar bears would die the way this bear was dying. He urged people to do everything they could to reduce their carbon footprint and prevent this ...

OFFICIALS SAY POLAR BEARS BEAU ... SO WILD BEARS ARE NOT CRITICALLY ENDANGERED YET. BUT THE ENVIRONMENT IS CHANGING RAPIDLY. SO IT’S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE DO EVERYTHING HERE IN THE ZOO ...