During the early 2000s, ancient bear bones belonging to brown bears and polar bears were found in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, more specifically, the Unalaska and Amaknak Islands. However ...

There it was: an ancient Roman tomb weighing as much as a polar bear, peacefully preserved beneath the A47 road for over a millennium. Some coffee breaks turn out more memorable than others!

The time lapse footage is the result of almost a decade of work monitoring the vulnerable predators' maternal behavior.

It’s a big world out there, especially for polar bear cubs emerging from their dens. An international team of researchers observed these special first steps thanks to nearly a decade of camera ...

Researchers use remote camera footage and satellite collars to gain new insights into polar bear denning behavior and cub survival. The denning period is the most critical time in a polar bear’s life.

Researchers have combined satellite collar data with specialized cameras to shed light on one of the most mysterious and important stages in polar bears' lives -- maternal denning, when bears give ...

One of his research results is the sequencing of the DNA from a rare, ancient polar bear fossil, which is yielding information about the response of the species to the devastation wrought by past ...

Polar bear cubs were seen without their mothers only 5% of the time after the families emerged from their dens. (Image credit: Dmytro Cherkasov/Polar Bears International) Throughout the study ...