Underneath all that hair, polar bear skin is actually black. The black skin readily absorbs sunlight to keep the bear warm. Polar bears aren't just the ambassadors of the North Pole. They're ...

The sea ice is ever-changing ... camouflage they need to be successful hunters. Interestingly, a polar bear’s skin is black, and its hairs are hollow with no white pigment.

Karl-Frederik Jensen puts on pants made of polar bear skin as he prepares to go ice fishing with his father ... saws off stiff planks of black skin and white blubber and tosses them to the dogs ...

The great white polar bear is the youngest and largest of the world's bear species ... by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. The Center has led ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...