The International Union for Conservation of Nature in October made the hooded seal an endangered species, while the bearded ...

Hollow hairs are a key survival tool for Arctic animals, which have evolved to grow extraordinary weather-proof coats.

How Ukrainian polar researchers live and work in Antarctica, what threats emerge at the “edge” of the world, what is ...

From tiny penguins to large polar bears, these creatures must find ways to survive in the harshest environments of the planet ...

Arktos and Walker, a beloved duo of male polar bears, reside at Highland Wildlife Park in Kingussie and were filmed playing in the snow this week.

Animal videos can be addictive. Who doesn’t stop scrolling when a tiny fox peeks out of the snow or a raccoon sneaks around a backyard? Even a polar bear waddling on ice can make anyone smile. They ...

Researchers analyzed blood samples from polar bears located in northeastern and southeastern Greenland. The results showed ...

When Dennis Lehtonen, 30, left city life behind for one of the remotest places on Earth, he could not have imagined the ...

Greenland’s remote eastern fjords are a place of elemental beauty, where glaciers carve through the land, musk oxen roam ...

When scientists in Canada came across a female polar bear with two cubs in the fall, they made an unusual discovery: One of the young was not her own offspring but instead a rare documented example of ...

With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive. The species is ...

Snowflake, the beloved polar bear at the Pittsburgh Zoo, celebrated her 30th birthday. The zoo says Snowflake, who is one of the oldest polar bears in human care in an accredited facility in the ...