You probably know polar bears as the big white animals roaming the Arctic, but there’s a lot about them that doesn’t make it ...

In modern times, the biggest bear on record was a polar bear taken in 1960. It weighed over 2,200 pounds and stood nearly 12 feet on its hind legs. From our Expert ...

She is also working with Tasul, measuring the concentrations of specific elements in her blood as a result of her high fat diet. "Up to 70 percent of [a wild polar bear's] diet is blubber," said Rode.

Polar bear family on sea ice near Kap Tobin, Scoresby Sound, Central East Greenland. Polar bears diverged from brown bears less than 500,000 years ago, rapidly evolving a metabolism that allows them ...

Map of polar bear range from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Five nations with turf inside the Arctic Circle are calling for action to save the polar bear. I do not believe Gov. Sarah Palin got to ...

Polar bear fur contains a cocktail of greasy compounds that make it exceptionally resistant to freezing, ... They found high levels of certain compounds that are especially resistant to freezing, ...

The paper, published in Zoo Biology, takes careful look at what zoos have fed polar bears revealing they mostly offered a diet intended for big cats, containing about 2-3 parts protein to 1-part ...

The jawbone of a polar bear that lived on the archipelago of Svalbard 115,000 to 130,000 years ago. Karsten Sund, Natural History Museum (NHM), University of Oslo ...

A reassessment of their habitat in 2015 found there was a “high probability” that the global polar bear population will decline by more than 30% over the next 35 to 40 years. Ad Feedback Subscribe ...

According to Griffen’s research, recently published in Polar Biology, it costs polar bears five times as much energy to swim as it does to walk the same distance.That cost became enormous in one case ...

Susannah Woodruff can’t wait to stop pulling teeth out of polar bears. Dr. Woodruff, a wildlife biologist at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, keeps tabs on Alaska’s population of the bears.