“Svalbard (and the Barents Sea area) has experienced a much faster loss of sea ice than other areas having polar bears,” Aars ...

Bear X33991 leading her two cubs along the ice. Dave Sandford / Discover Churchill (Wildlife Photographer, Guide, and Polar Bears International Photo Ambassador) Get the Popular Science daily ...

A population of bears in Norway’s Arctic is confounding scientists’ expectations, getting fatter and healthier even as the sea ice melts rapidly.

The two cubs, born in November 2024, are captured playing in fresh snow at Hungary’s Sóstó Zoo in a viral moment that has charmed social media users Sosto Zoo/Facebook Two polar bear cubs at a ...

Researchers in northern Canada have observed a rare case of polar bear adoption, capturing video footage of a wild female bear caring for a cub that was not her own. "Cub adoption is relatively rare ...

Researchers were surprised when they spotted an additional cub with this mother polar bear. Dave Sandford / Discover Churchill When female polar bear X33991 first emerged from her maternal den in ...

Regular folks who care about wildlife generally know that climate change is bad for polar bears, but they have only vague ...

Generated by create next app Polar bear mom adopts cub during migration A polar bear mom emerged from her den with one cub, but was later seen in Churchill, Manitoba, with two. Researchers say she ...

A wild female polar bear in Canada’s Churchill, Manitoba, had been observed and captured on camera with an adopted cub that is not her own. Adoption among polar bears isn’t unheard of, but it is ...