An investigation by The Guardian alleges the World Wildlife Fund's position on the polar bear fur trade is shockingly lax. Critics argue the organization should use its considerable influence to put ...

Senior author Bodil Holst, a physicist at the University of Bergen in Norway, was inspired to investigate polar bear fur after watching a TV quiz program, she tells Michael Le Page at New Scientist.

“It’s something that I had never really thought deeply about: is there something unique about their fur?” Applying each group’s research strengths, the team demonstrated that the oils in polar bear ...

JONATHAN LAMBERT, BYLINE: Nanophysicist Bodil Holst got interested in studying polar bear fur while watching a German quiz show. BODIL HOLST: In that quiz show, I learned that polar bears are ...

A polar bear's insulating fur shown under infrared heat imaging taken with a FLIR E75 24o (FLIR Systems OÜ, Estonia) Svalbard Archipelago, Norway.

How much they weigh: From as little as 60 pounds (27 kilograms) to more than 1,700 pounds (771 kg) ...

While the bears enjoy soaking up the sun, warmer weather triggers several physiological changes. Baxendell explained polar ...

Town council entertained a 2025 budget presentation from the Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat during a special meeting, on March ...

The "Pizzly" bear — first spotted in 2006 in the Canadian Arctic — has the "white fur of a polar bear but the long claws, humped back, shallow face and brown patches of a grizzly," according ...

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They all have stocky, fur-covered bodies ... Asian black bear, brown bear, panda bear, polar bear, spectacled bear, sloth bear and sun bear. Some of the most famous types of bear are actually ...