Not a bear or even a bird ... was left to contemplate the prospect of his survival alone, the mutiny ended. On April 9, 1916, the ice floe began to crack, and Shackleton gave the long-awaited ...

Ukrainian researchers recorded an interesting picture near the Akademik Vernadsky polar station. Several seals lie down on an ice floe and relax ... Seals relax on ice floes both alone and in groups – ...

Polar bears: The polar bear has a long neck and a slim body. They have hollow hair covering the whole body except for their lips, nose, and the soles of their feet. Their face is narrow, with small ...

After a summer of fasting on land, the bears need to get back to their frozen home to hunt seals and bulk up. But their migration ritual is changing.

Ralph Gianelli died that day after the weather suddenly turned fiendish. He drowned in storm-tossed waters of Lake Superior, ...

A stunningly tender moment between a polar bear mama and her cub was ... drowning when they can’t swim from floe to floe, or because the chunks of ice they are traveling on break up and sink.

A stunningly tender moment between a polar bear mama and her cub was recently captured on film in Manitoba, and it’s making ...

Low ice adhesion properties of polar bear fur sebum offer sustainable solutions for preventing ice buildup on infrastructure. An international research team investigated the ice-repelling features of ...

A study in the journal Science Advances reveals how polar bears manage to get wet in the cold without their fur freezing.

This experiment showed that the ice adhesion of unwashed polar bear fur is exceptionally low. While the often-accepted ...

People plunge into freezing Lake Michigan during Chicago Polar Bear Club 24th annual Polar Plunge event at Oak Street Beach on Jan. 25, 2025. The event was sold out after selling 1,000 tickets.

A file photo of an (ice-free!) mother polar bear and her cub on the Hudson Bay. (Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images) Preventing ice buildup in extreme temperatures has long vexed industries ...