We were camped in the Northwest Territories conducting research when our camp dog started barking. Then the polar bear ...

It may seem odd to correlate an Arctic animal with a sugary soda brand, but Coca-Cola has been making it work for them since ...

The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest.

This handout photo shows a polar bear that was shot by the police after being considered a threat to people nearby, authorities said, in Westfjords, Iceland, Thursday Sept. 19, 2024.

As the polar bear walks across the snow, it deposits microscopic epidermal material, transferred from paw to the ground.The team used trowels to scrape a thin layer of snow off these prints, then ...

The New Bedford Whaling Museum, with its vast array of paintings, prints, carvings, books, photographs and cultural objects that focus on the polar bear within their collection, is uniquely suited ...

Von Duyke was working to come up with a methodology to identify polar bears using the DNA left in snowy bear tracks. That was in November 2020. Skip to main content ...

The polar bear is a carnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding landmasses. A boar (adult male ...

The team investigated a total of 130 polar bear paw prints and was able to successfully isolate DNA from 46 percent of them. In a second paper, published in the same journal this week, ...

Researchers at the University of Idaho have found a unique, non-invasive way to identify polar bears in the Arctic by scraping DNA from a bear’s paw print.