With the summer calendar in full swing for all Marion County sports squads, the Fairmont Senior boy’s basketball team, along with cross-town rival East Fairmont, got their first bits of action over ...

In October 1955, a polar bear cub arrived in Madras. But it died in the summer of 1959, though it was housed in a ‘polar weather enclosure’ June 13, 2025 e-Paper ...

In Norway's Svalbard archipelago, scientists, for the first time, took fat tissue biopsies from polar bears to study the impact of pollutants on their health. July 10, 2022. News.

Despite years of exposure, Svalbard's polar bears showed no signs of emaciation or ill health, according to the team. The local population has remained stable or even increased slightly, unlike ...

To a layperson, it’s footage of adorable polar bear cubs with their moms against the backdrop of endless Arctic snow. For researchers who study the animals, however, it’s a rare and incredibly ...

Plungers ran into the cold Chesapeake Bay this weekend marking the 29th annual Special Olympics Maryland Polar Bear Plunge. Check out photos from the cold event.

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 ...

Polar bears are one of the most majestic, yet fearsome animals on the planet. The largest living species of bear and the largest land carnivore, the polar bear is closely related to the brown bear.

Polar bears are highly dispersed land animals. They roam up to 3,000 miles in a month and have extensive home ranges covering areas exceeding 6,00,000 square kilometers.

Despite the name, Bruno was a female bear that lived somewhere between 100,000 and 70,000 years ago and its genome has helped scientists narrow in on this brown bear-polar bear divergence.

An employee working at a remote radar site in Brevoort Island, Nvt., was killed after they were attacked by two polar bears on Thursday. Nasittuq Corporation, which operates several Arctic radar ...

The death of a polar bear at the Calgary Zoo last week was caused by drowning after accidental injury from rough play, officials said Tuesday. Necropsy results confirmed that seven-year-old male ...