The footage, taken on the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard, shows a mother polar bear (Ursus maritimus) plodding through the Arctic island's frozen landscape and her three cubs emerging one after ...

For nearly a decade, researchers have gathered camera footage from outside the dens of female polar bears and their cubs on ...

The polar vortex is a “constant feature” that begins to develop sometime in September and persists through sometime in spring ...

A polar bear lounges in a field of pink flowers. An arctic fox skips gingerly as the thaw of spring moves in. And a baby chimpanzee sips a bottle. The 2024 Nature Photography Contest showcases the ...

The behaviors of the polar bear and Kodiak bear differ greatly. Kodiak bears are very unique in that they have adapted to life on an island with other bears, while polar bears lead solitary life ...

Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede has framed today's vote as a "fateful choice." Polls show most support independence ...

Polar bear dens have long been difficult to study due to the bears ... and remote cameras to capture footage of the polar bears and their cubs in Svalbard, an island chain directly north of Norway.

The Kane Basin Bear, also known as the High Arctic polar bear, is a unique subpopulation of polar bears found in the Kane Basin region of the Arctic. This region is between Ellesmere Island in Canada ...

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) on the pack ice north of Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway. Image by Alexey_Seafarer on Depositphotos. Polar bears have a thick layer of blubber and dense fur to keep ...

By comparison, the heaviest polar bear — considered to be the largest species of bear ... the remains of a well-preserved 43,000-year-old mammoth carcass found on the island of Maly Lyakhov, another ...

Remote cameras were deployed in the Arctic mountains across nearly a decade; Valuable footage of moms and cubs emerging from ...