Polar bears will not be able to adapt to ice-free environments and are likely to starve to death, new research has found. As ...

New research finds that grease that coats polar bear fur contains a specialized mixture of chemicals that make it resistant ...

“Unwashed, greasy hair made it much harder for ice to stick. In contrast, when the polar bear hair was washed and the grease largely removed it performed similarly to human hair, to which ice sticks ...

A polar bear! Its thick fur helps it to hide and keep warm in the freezing cold. Plus an Arctic fox. It can hear its prey, deep under the snow. And a bird! The snowy owl. They nest on the ground ...

But wild polar bear fur can still change color to yellow, thanks to oils from their prey that stain the fur. Perhaps the most surprising thing about polar bears? Underneath all that hair ...

Loss of Habitat Polar bears primarily inhabit regions with abundant sea ice, which they use as platforms for hunting seals, their primary prey. As global warming causes Arctic sea ice to melt at ...

She also knew that polar bears jump into frigid water when they hunt, coming back onto land to eat their prey. Most mammalian hair can freeze when it gets wet in cold temperatures — think human ...

She also knew that polar bears jump into frigid water when they hunt, coming back onto land to eat their prey. Most mammalian hair can freeze when it gets wet in cold temperatures — think human beards ...

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) charity has been working to support the trade in polar bear fur at the same time as using the animal image to raise funds.