Polar bears don’t have to worry about skipping a wash day. The sebum, or natural oil, on the mammals’ fur helps them survive ...

International Polar Bear Day highlights conservation efforts to protect polar bears and their fragile Arctic habitat.

Time is Running Out for Polar Bears! Scientists warn that polar bear numbers could decline by 30% by 2050 due to melting sea ...

Patience: A polar bear still-hunting on the sea ice of Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada. (Courtesy: Jenny E Ross) In the teeth of the Arctic winter, polar-bear fur always remains free of ice – but how?

Polar bears have a hidden-in-a-plain-sight superpower that anyone who has watched a wildlife documentary could have spotted: ice doesn’t stick to their fur. This has long been known to ...

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 ...

Julian Carolan says researchers are looking at polar bear grease because it repels ice. That property could help replace the harmful forever chemicals currently used in non-stick cookware.

Although the bears in ice age North America were the biggest and ... of the northern forests and posed no threat to possible human newcomers. These giant woolly pachyderms were still wandering ...