Looking at a polar bear, you'd probably assume its fur is white, but you'd be wrong, as it's really just an interesting trick the light plays.

The polar bear’s fur is its best camouflage. This is because not only is it disguising the fact that polar bears have black skin, but the translucence of the fur also helps the polar bear blend ...

The Truth About Polar Bear Skin Underneath their fur, polar bears have black skin. This may sound surprising, but it's a crucial adaptation.

Low ice adhesion properties of polar bear fur sebum offer sustainable solutions for preventing ice buildup on infrastructure. An international research team investigated the ice-repelling features of ...

“Polar bears with ice balls have been observed in many parts of the Arctic, but the recent observations are much more severe and larger,” ecologist Andrew Derocher of the University of Alberta ...

A polar bear hunts for seals out on the ice. Adobe Stock Not all polar bears hibernate—just pregnant females. And compared to other bears, female polar bears do not hibernate as deeply ...

As the sea ice experiences mass melting, the polar bears have no other choice but to gravitate toward land. And researchers are now witnessing how the species is adapting to land-dwelling after ...

The polar bears pass through Churchill, Manitoba, hoping to catch a ride out of the tiny town on Hudson Bay's sea ice. After a summer of fasting on land, the bears need to get back to their frozen ...

Polar bears, unable to thrive on land in Canada's Hudson Bay, are facing greater risk of starvation as Arctic ice melts and they endure longer ice-free seasons, researchers said.

Polar Bear vs Grizzly Bear Genetically, polar bears and grizzly bears aren’t all that different. Scientists believe that polar bears split from grizzly bears between 250,000 and 130,000 years ago.