To monitor surface and ambient temperatures, humidity and wind speeds, the zoo uses a tool called a “thermal neutral zone kit ... to some animals in the summer, such as polar bears and ...

A new study shows that the mere presence of poop prompted the crustaceans to launch into evasive maneuvers. New research ...

At the other end of the Earth, the Antarctic Polar region has the same climate zone, but different animals live there. The Antarctic has no polar bears, but it does have penguins. A sloth in the ...

Siku, a polar bear at Lincoln Park Zoo, developed allergies to various substances including human hair dander (Credit: Lincoln Park Zoo) It may be that zoo animals are so well cared for they ...

PBI monitors polar bears across the Arctic partly to determine the impacts of climate change on the behavior and physical condition of the animals as well as population trends. One program has ...

Such a migration would have taken them out of the "zone of darkness" and ... But Fastovsky says that polar dinosaurs tell us nothing about the animals' demise because we don't know whether these ...

The great white polar bear is the youngest and largest of the world's bear species — a mighty hunter and fierce defender of its young that's among the world's most vulnerable animals. Two-thirds of ...

But during the last ice age when sea levels were much lower, the caves were the high-and-dry habitat for a completely different group of animals ... so-called twilight zone of caves—right ...