With expressions reminiscent of a human mother who is being bothered by her baby, the polar bear covers her ears as she struggles to keep up with her energetic cub. The adorable six-week-old is ...

Their ears and tails are small in comparison to ... which make for an incredibly fatty diet. The polar bear’s ability to survive on this without developing heart disease may be one of their ...

If you're ready for a hint, listen up: Each of the snowmen has round heads, while the polar bear has two little ears poking ...

Technological advances like satellite tracking collars and ear tags have allowed researchers to identify 19 distinct polar bear subpopulations. Since many are in particularly hard-to-access areas ...

The Burr on Fur polar bear trackers are designed to be temporary. That’s in contrast to ear tags, which are permanent. Because polar bears have such huge home ranges, when researchers put an ear ...

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - The St. Louis Zoo announced on Thursday that it has launched a new conservation initiative that will ...

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 ...

ROSS: And we pull the polar bear's hair through each one of those ... so they're less invasive than ear tags and collars. They also help researchers collect more information from male bears.

Even as a drone hovered above to get this shot, a large male polar bear that photographer Martin Gregus, Jr., calls Scar never stirred in this bed of fireweed. Gregus says he named many of the ...