With climate change warming the planet, the Arctic ice is melting at an alarmingly rapid rate. In fact, according to NASA, since 1979, the ice has continued to decrease every 10 years by around 13%.

By comparison, the heaviest polar bear — considered to be the largest species of ... But perhaps even more startling was the discovery of an Ice Age wolf-dog puppy hybrid, which had the remains of a ...

In a study published in The Journal of Wildlife Management, we used remote cameras to study polar bear families as they emerged from their dens in Svalbard, Norway, gaining insight into the ...

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Polar bears on ice in Northern Canada. Nano-physicist Bodil Holst's interest in polar bear fur began while she was watching a German quiz show. "I learned that polar bears are invisible in ...

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Spotting polar-grizzly bear hybrids in the wild can be tricky. This polar bear's darker face and body shape might lead some to think it's a hybrid, but only genetic testing can say for sure.

These bears are exactly what they sound like — a cross between a polar bear and a grizzly bear — and the first known hybrid was documented in 2006, when an Idaho hunter killed one in Canada.

A family of polar and grizzly bear hybrids, or grolars, in Canada’s western Arctic — which all started with a “pretty strange” female polar bear — is “quite rare,” according to a new ...

A photo of a hybrid bear spotted during a monitoring flight in the western Arctic in 2012. Polar bear researcher Evan Richardson believes it's bear X15718, a female hybrid who mated with grizzlies ...

The existence of eight hybrid ‘grolar’ bears — part grizzly, part polar bear — has been confirmed off the north coast of Canada in new research experts say is a good sign the ice-dwelling ...