We were, perhaps, naive. The picture went viral—and people took it literally. Paul spotted the polar bear a year ago on a scouting trip to an isolated cove on Somerset Island in the Canadian Arctic.

Why does the Arctic have polar bears and Antarctica penguins? These patterns impressed Darwin deeply. To him, they argued that species arose in single centers by descent with modification from ...

This can be because they have an injury (as may be the case with the polar bear in the photo) or because the animal is old and has lost some of its canines, she said. Steven Amstrup, chief ...

The event’s goal this year was to raise $2 million. A participant in a polar bear costume emerges from Lake Michigan, with temperatures in the 20s, on March 2, 2025, during the annual Polar ...

She is an expert on the evolution of the polar bear, having co-led an international effort to sequence the genomes of the polar bear and brown bear. That study, published in 2012, suggested that polar ...

more and more bears were born that were white and they could all catch seals more easily. POLAR BEAR 1: Hic! Delicious! POLAR BEAR 2: Yummier than fish any day. GRANDDAD: And now they're called ...

It’s a big world out there, especially for polar bear cubs emerging from their dens. An international team of researchers observed these special first steps thanks to nearly a decade of camera ...