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

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 ...

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 ...

There's something about polar bears that's always puzzled the people who study them. How do they seem to repel snow? The ...

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 ...

All these powerful features make brown bears an imposing predator that can take down prey as large and dangerous as an adult bison. Yet, while these bears eat meat, much of their diet is plant ...

There's something about polar bears that's always puzzled the people who study them. How do they seem to repel snow? The animals spend their lives in cold climates, sometimes rolling around in ...

If you could cuddle a friendly polar bear, how do you think it would feel? Most people might guess soft and fluffy, but new research out this week in the journal Science Advances found that the ...

This long-term volunteer role eventually landed her the gig of her dreams at Polar Bears International in 2022. “I tell people I was like ... of the Tundra Buggy to do polar bear photography ...

Victoria has been at the Highland Wildlife Park since 2015 Victoria is the oldest of four polar bears kept ... "In the wild they eat seals. "We cannot feed them seals, but we do try to emulate ...