New research finds that grease that coats polar bear fur contains a specialized mixture of chemicals that make it resistant ...

University of Toronto Scarborough researchers have directly linked population decline in polar bears living in Western Hudson Bay to shrinking sea ice caused by climate change. The researchers ...

The group compared ice resistance in samples of four materials: washed and unwashed polar bear fur, human hair and hair ... “It wasn’t that pleasant to do,” he tells the Washington Post ...

A polar bear ... eat me. That's seldom bothered me, however, because I know I'm far more likely to be killed by just about anything else. Put it this way: if you combine the average number of ...

A fat polar bear is a bear more likely to thrive in its extreme Arctic environment. So, when scientists discovered polar bear ...

They then compared the performance of polar bear hair with human hair and two human-made ski skins. A polar bear’s insulating fur shown under infrared heat imaging taken with a FLIR E75 24o ...

The chilling waters of the Susquehanna River worked its magic on Paula Snyder in 2023. Snyder, 74, of Lewisburg, said she is participating in the 21st Annual Lewisburg Polar Bear Plunge on Saturday ...

The onlookers seem concerned, trying to figure out how to assist the bear without putting themselves in danger. Thalarctos Maritimus (Ursus maritimus) commonly known as Polar bear swimming under water ...

A fat polar bear is a bear more likely to thrive in its extreme Arctic environment. So, when scientists discovered polar bear populations were dropping rapidly, they created a framework to understand ...