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A female polar bear named Snow arrived from SeaWorld Orlando on Thursday. It'll probably be next week before we get to see the fully grown bear, which weighs around 500 pounds. COURTESY OF ...
Snow, the 17-year-old polar bear who died Labor Day at the Reid Park Zoo, suffered from an undiagnosed heart ailment, a zoo official announced last week at the same time ...
You’ve watched them shuffle across icebergs and marveled at their underwater acrobatics, and now you'll want to share these ...
Polar bear fur isn't really white -- it's transparent and covers up black skin. Here's why they look white when you see these ...
Melting sea ice causes polar bears to lose their traditional hunting grounds. You'd be surprised at the lengths they go to ...
In today’s 3 BRILLIANT MINUTES, Brad Spakowitz tells you what they learned about changes to the bears’ diet and health because of climate change and vanishing ice. Along the way, we also discover a ...
It's a pretty risky business trying to take a blood sample from a polar bear -- one of the most dangerous predators on the ...
Before pivoting her focus to the Arctic, Alysa McCall worked extensively in the grassland ecosystem. There, the interventions ...
You probably know polar bears as the big white animals roaming the Arctic, but there’s a lot about them that doesn’t make it into the usual stories. They deal with extreme cold, hunt in ways ...
Researchers reviewed footage from 20 bears. Scientists make alarming discovery after attaching GoPro cameras to polar bears ...
Biologists were on Capitol Hill this week to warn lawmakers that changes they are considering to the “Marine Mammals Protection Act” could cause serious harm to whales, dolphins, polar ...
SEA ISLE CITY – The public is invited to the Polar Bear 5K Run/1.5-Mile Fun Walk for Autism at noon, Sunday, Feb. 15, at JFK Boulevard and Promenade, Sea Isle ...