At birth, polar bears are blind, nearly hairless and weigh just over a pound—about the same as a loaf of bread. But they ...

The time lapse footage is the result of almost a decade of work monitoring the vulnerable predators' maternal behavior.

Polar bears are born in the winter and spend their first several weeks of life in the den with their mother. Researchers note that less than half of the cubs will survive until adulthood, with the ...

researchers know very little about this vulnerable stage of their lives. Now, however, scientists have managed to capture rare footage of a polar bear mother and her cubs leaving their den in the ...

Polar bear cubs were seen without their mothers only 5% of the time after the families emerged from their dens. (Image credit: Dmytro Cherkasov/Polar Bears International) Throughout the study ...

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.

A polar bear cub named Nur was introduced in Sao Paulo on Thursday, marking a historic milestone as the first polar bear born ...

I decided not to do it. Then, at two in the morning, a crew member woke us up. He had spotted a polar bear approaching in the distance under the midnight sun. We ran to the bow of the boat to see ...