Polar bear cubs are incredibly cute — and amazingly elusive. Their mothers dig dens under the snow in remote areas. Protecting cubs is key to the species’ survival. Under half of all polar bear cubs ...

Researchers have captured extremely rare footage of polar bear cubs leaving their snowy dens for the first time. The footage, taken on the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard, shows a mother polar bear ...

These polar bear cubs had a sweet, scaredy-cat moment, and mom was there to save the day. In PEOPLE's exclusive look at the new episode of National Geographic's Incredible Animal Journeys — a ...

Incredibly Cute Polar Bear Cubs See the World for First Time After a long winter in their den, a polar bear mother and her cubs emerge at the first signs of spring. It's a magical moment when the ...

The cub recently made its public debut at the Royal Zoological Society's Highland Wildlife Park in Scotland Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.

So far, the Center's work has helped polar bears keep their protected status even after legal appeals to the bear's listing on several fronts, and we're still working to save these majestic animals ...