Plungers ran into the cold Chesapeake Bay on Saturday, Feb. 1, marking the 29th annual Special Olympics Maryland Polar Bear Plunge. The fundraising event, in which individuals pledge $100 or more ...

A fat polar bear is a bear more likely to thrive in its extreme Arctic environment. So, when scientists discovered polar bear populations were dropping rapidly, they created a framework to ...

YOU’RE GOING TO GO IN DEEP, REPRESENT. THAT’S RIGHT. I’M NOT GETTING MY HAIR WET, BUT I AM GOING TO GO IN CHEST DEEP. WE GOT THE WATER SHOES GOING. WE’RE READY TO GO. WE GOT THE PLUNGE ...

You have something in common with polar bears. Polar bears and humans produce sebum. It's an oily substance that comes from our hair glands. In humans, sebum helps protect your skin from ...

Senior author Bodil Holst, a physicist at the University of Bergen in Norway, was inspired to investigate polar bear fur after watching a TV quiz program, she tells Michael Le Page at New Scientist.

A remote community on the icy shores of Canada's Hudson Bay is struggling to maintain its polar bear population that drives ...

You don’t see them used for in modern computers very often, but Taiwanese display company Hannspree recently launched a 23.8 inch computer monitor with a transflective display called the ...

According to a recent study published in Science Advances, a greasy hair day keeps the ice away — for polar bears, that is. After examining polar bear fur, an international research team identified ...

Victoria has been at the Highland Wildlife Park since 2015 Victoria is the oldest of four polar bears kept at the Highland Wildlife Park in the Cairngorms National Park. At the grand old age of 28 ...