Researchers have captured extremely rare footage of polar bear cubs leaving their snowy dens for the first time. The footage, taken on the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard, shows a mother polar bear ...

An international team of scientists unlocked the anti-icing secret of polar bear fur, a discovery that could revolutionize ...

Shapiro’s Nature Ecology study also focused on what may have happened to other polar bear genomes during periods of low ice—in this case, around 120,000 or 125,000 years ago when, according to ...

The study, led by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was published June 16 in Nature Ecology & Evolution. The researchers obtained ancient DNA from the skull of a juvenile polar ...

“Studies including observational data at polar bear den sites have been few, and this study contributes significantly to our knowledge about denning ecology. “Further, as the data from ...

I think that's where they offer considerable promise." The researcher, who studies polar bear ecology, also says the tags could fill important gaps in knowledge about the bears. And as the Arctic ...

“These tags will help further our understanding of these differences, resulting in a more holistic picture of polar bear ecology and how the species is responding to their changing environment.

The implications of this research extend beyond understanding polar bear ecology. "Our work shows that polar bear fur provides an alternative strategy to produce an anti-icing surface based on the ...