I'D NEVER BEEN IN WATER THATCOLD BEFORE.IT WAS LIKE ... will rush into the Chesapeake Bay as part of the Cool Schools Challenge at the Polar Bear Plunge, which supports the Special Olympics ...

When it starts getting warm outside many humans like to cool down with a dip in the water. Polar bears are no different! Just ask Gus, the Central Park Zoo's resident remaining polar bear ...

But, Holst noticed, polar bear fur did not freeze after getting wet. Sponsor Message "I was very puzzled," she says. "When they go into the water and out again, why do they not get covered in ice?" ...

But Pixel the polar bear has found an ingenious way to keep cool: by fashioning a sun hat ... placed it on his head before hurling it into the water and diving in after it for a refreshing dip.

It was a cat-and-mouse game.' When the bear slipped into the water, he just waited. 'There was just a flat, world of water and ice and this polar bear swimming lazily around me. I could hear her slow, ...