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.

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 ...

Despite this clear motivation to get back to hunting seals on the sea ice, polar bear families will often hang out at the den for days or weeks after emerging. On average, the families we monitored in ...

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 ...