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The Legendary Egg was introduced to Grow a Garden as part of the Animal Update that launched on May 3, 2025. This red and ...
This handout photo shows a polar bear that was shot by the police after being considered a threat to people nearby, authorities said, in Westfjords, Iceland, Thursday Sept. 19, 2024.
H5N1 bird flu strain spreading to other mammals across U.S. 03:19 Rampant avian flu that has impacted millions of poultry birds and thousands of wild birds in the U.S. alone has now killed a polar ...
A young polar bear drops a nest box in an attempt to get black guillemot chicks on Aug. 12, 2024 on Cooper Island in the Arctic Ocean about 25 miles east of Utqiagvik, while its mother rests nearby.
Polar bear fur also lacked a compound called squalene, the researchers found. Squalene is abundant in other marine mammals and has properties that make ice stick to it easily.
Another polar bear, one of the three mascots for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, then flew as the zero-g indicator for Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio and JAXA ...
In 1982, a polar bear killed a man in the Central Park Zoo after he broke into the bear’s cage. Amanda Holpuch is a general assignment reporter. Share full article. Advertisement.
The last fatal polar bear attack to occur in Alaska was in December 1990. Similar to Tuesday's, the 1990 attack was unprovoked. York said that in 1990, it had been a thin and hungry bear.
Plungers ran into the cold Chesapeake Bay this weekend marking the 29th annual Special Olympics Maryland Polar Bear Plunge. Check out photos from the cold event.