Polar bear fur also lacked a compound called squalene, the researchers found. Squalene is abundant in other marine mammals and has properties that make ice stick to it easily.

Polar bears need all the help they can get to survive their frosty Arctic environment.One of their biggest survival secrets appears to be greasy hair.The sebum–or hair grease–on their fur ...

Polar bear fur also lacked a compound called squalene, the researchers found. Squalene is abundant in other marine mammals and has properties that make ice stick to it easily.

Hair grease is the secret, it turns out. And it's partly what the fur has — and what it lacks. Polar bear fur contains a cocktail of greasy compounds that make it exceptionally resistant to ...

Polar bears might be greasier than widely believed.. The bears’ greasy fur is the secret to the popular species’ survival in one of Earth’s most punishing climates. The grease, also known as ...

Polar bears have a hidden-in-a-plain-sight superpower that anyone who has watched a wildlife documentary could have spotted: ice doesn’t stick to their fur. This has long been known to ...

I n the Arctic, polar bears are equally at home swimming in the frigid waters or galloping across fields of ice and snow. When they emerge from the water, their fur temperature drops to nearly that of ...

Polar bears and humans produce sebum. It's an oily substance that comes from our hair glands.

Why polar bear fur doesn't freeze A study in the journal Science Advances reveals how polar bears manage to get wet in the cold without their fur freezing. Animals.

And it’s partly what the fur has — and what it lacks. Polar bear fur contains a cocktail of greasy compounds that make it exceptionally resistant to freezing, Holst and her colleagues reported last ...

Nano-physicist Bodil Holst's interest in polar bear fur began while she was watching a German quiz show. "I learned that polar bears are invisible in infrared cameras, meaning their fur has the ...