A photo of a polar bear sleeping in a bed of flowers in the Arctic won the 2024 Nature Photography Contest, the competition ...
Researchers found compounds produced in polar bear skin that were as ice resistant as PFAS, offering potential novel ...
Unprecedented footage of polar bear snow dens reveals hidden new insights about the majestic animals. In the frozen wilderness of Svalbard, Norway, a mother polar bear and her cubs emerge from their ...
Despite being the largest land carnivore and a top Arctic predator that can weigh over 600 kg, polar bears start off surprisingly small. Blind, almos ...
"We then compared the performance of the polar bear hair with that of human hair and two types of specialist human-made ski skins." The team's experiments revealed that unwashed, greasy polar bear ...
The footage was filmed in Svalbard, Norway, and published in a new study in the Journal of Wildlife Management on Feb. 27 — which is International Polar Bear Day, Polar Bears International said in a ...
LAMBERT: Holst hopes that her research could eventually lead to things like greener ski waxes, lubricants and even new deicing fluid for airplanes, all inspired by greasy polar bear fur.