An international team of scientists unlocked the anti-icing secret of polar bear ... fur's ice-repellent properties. Julian ...

The photographer of a stunning image of a polar bear drifting off to sleep on a bed of ice won the Natural History Museum's 2023 Wildlife Photographer of the Year award, drawing attention to the ...

It was a short walk from the school where ... in sea ice habitat had coincided with evidence that polar bears' use of land was increasing and that the chances of a polar bear encounter had risen.

Polar bears enjoy swimming in cold water for hunting, cooling off, and playing, and they are majestic to watch.

“Unwashed, greasy hair made it much harder for ice to stick. In contrast, when the polar bear hair was washed and the grease largely removed it performed similarly to human hair, to which ice ...

She realized that she had never seen a polar bear covered in ice in any wildlife documentaries, even after they emerged from a dive in below-freezing water. “And then I thought, well ...

(Courtesy Bering Strait School District ... other organizations to bring back regular patrols. A male polar bear walks on pack ice near open water. (Eric Regehr/USFWS) With a warming climate ...

Ice balls on polar bear feet are much less common and some unusual conditions are needed for them to occur.” Laidre and Atkinson believe that a warming climate may have played a role ...

MORE: Prolonged ice-free periods putting Hudson Bay polar bear population at risk of extinction: Study The melting of the sea ice has shortened the polar bears' feeding season, which has resulted ...

Bodil Holst at the University of Bergen in Norway and her colleagues have shown that the ice resistance of polar bear fur is due to natural oils secreted onto the hairs, rather than a property of ...

Patience: A polar bear still-hunting on the sea ice of Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada. (Courtesy: Jenny E Ross) In the teeth of the Arctic winter, polar-bear fur always remains free of ice – but how?