Just on the edge of the western Hudson Bay lies the small town of Churchill, Manitoba. Here, the sea meets the boreal forest ...

Kali broke hearts from the moment he came to the St. Louis Zoo's then-new Polar Bear Point as an 850-pound 2-year-old in 2015 ...

Scientists discovered that polar bear fur’s oily coating prevents ice from sticking, thanks to a unique mix of lipids. This ...

The Saint Louis Zoo announced Wednesday that they have exchanged one of their long-time resident polar bears for young polar ...

The zoo has welcomed a 12-year-old male from the Saint Louis Zoo to Toledo and put him into an acclimation process before he ...

Researchers found compounds produced in polar bear skin that were as ice resistant as PFAS, offering potential novel ...

There isn’t anything quite like a dip into the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean on a winter afternoon and thousands of ...

Haley, the 22-year-old polar bear, left Memphis Zoo in Tennessee over the weekend in preparation for her new home in Michigan. Lately, two polar bears have been part of the Detroit Zoo collection, a ...

According to the group’s findings, which have been published in Science Advances, the key lies in polar bear’s sebum—a natural skin oil secreted from glands beneath their fur. This oily ...

Kiernan said she and her two friends raised almost $1,000 in their second year of participating. It was the eighth Polar Bear Plunge for Jess Reinhardt, 34, of Ewing, who participated with a ...

Czech cold-water swimmers have set a new world record for the largest polar bear dip. A total of 2,461 took part in the attempt in the Most lake in northwest Czech Republic.