Polar bears have a hidden-in-a-plain-sight superpower that anyone who has watched a wildlife documentary could have spotted: ice doesn’t stick to their fur. This has long been known to ...

It is suggested that the absence of the squalene in the polar bear hair was critical from an anti-icing perspective. It also offers insight into some of the ways other animals living in polar ...

Our work shows that polar bear fur provides an alternative strategy to produce an anti-icing surface based on the characteristic blend of lipids present in their fur sebum or hair ... Still hunting ...

Our work shows that polar bear fur provides an alternative strategy to produce an anti-icing surface based on the characteristic blend of lipids ... frequently develops into an 'aquatic stalk ...

Polar bears are struggling to survive as sea ice dwindles. Scientists have now quantified how much climate change has drastically reduced the number of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson Bay ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — East Carolina University has brought back their annual Polar Bear Plunge for another year. The first plunge was in 1997 and had 35 participants. The largest Polar Bear ...

Polar bears rely on a hunting technique called 'still hunting,' where they patiently wait near a seal’s breathing hole in the ice. If the bear needs to slide silently into the water for a ...

A new study revealed that the fur of polar bears contains an oily substance that helps them remain dry despite the creatures sliding on ice and diving into the water to hunt. This finding could ...

There's something about polar bears that's always puzzled the people who study them. How do they seem to repel snow? The animals spend their lives in cold climates, sometimes rolling around in ...

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