It’s a stark reminder of how climate change is reshaping entire ecosystems. Scientists' stunning observation of hybrid ...

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“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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

and whales that are their prey and where they will slowly starve to death. After finding nothing of value in the fuel drums, the polar bear waddled into the water and swam away. Paul worried that ...

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.

Still hunting frequently develops into an ‘aquatic stalk’ with the polar bear using its hind paws to slide into the water to pursue its prey, and the lower the ice adhesion, the less noise ...