Researchers have found that certain changes in polar bear DNA are linked to bears living in warmer places — with implications ...

Researchers analyzed blood samples from polar bears located in northeastern and southeastern Greenland. The results showed that “some genes linked to heat-stress, aging and metabolism” were “behaving ...

In fact, polar bears do not actually have white fur. No, we aren’t kidding. These fluffy mammals, which survive in the icy ...

A new resident has arrived at the Oregon Zoo's Polar Passage habitat. Kallik, a three-year-old polar bear from the Saint ...

Yet in the past 12 years, at least 467 species have gone extinct, with most of these creatures — including a type of rodent called the melomy and a Hawaiian tree snail called Achatinella apexfulva — ...

Portland residents recently gave a fond farewell to the beloved polar bear Nora, who was transferred to her new home at Wisconsin's Henry Vilas Zoo. Both her and Kallik's moves were facilitated by the ...

GENEVA (AP) — Nations will be asked to decide whether the polar bear should be considered an endangered species because of global warming. The U.S. proposal to increase the protection given to polar ...

CINCINNATI (AP) -- An Ohio zoo has become the repository for the world's largest collection of polar bear poop as researchers work to create a pregnancy test to aid the survival of this endangered ...

In the frozen wilderness of the Arctic, human survival historically depended on using every available food source. But one ...

When people ask “what’s the most dangerous bear,” they usually expect “polar bear” or “grizzly” as a gut-level answer.... The ...