To the photographer's horror, the plastic began to flex on the ... But fortunately, the polar bear ran out of energy. She gave up trying to get into the cage. He said, "The truth is that I was ...

A sneak peak of a new episode of National Geographic's Incredible Animal Journeys shows two polar bear cubs exploring the outdoors for the first time Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE.

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...

Essentially, it's Mother Nature's Teflon. "We found that when you had unwashed, greasy polar bear fur, it didn't stick that strongly at all," said Julian Carolan, a PhD student at Trinity College ...

Credit: Simon Gee/Kt Miller/Steven C Amstrup/Polar Bears International/Cover Images Researchers have revealed astonishing new insights into the lives of polar bear cubs by studying them as they emerge ...

Patience: A polar bear still-hunting on the sea ice of Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada. (Courtesy: Jenny E Ross) In the teeth of the Arctic winter, polar-bear fur always remains free of ice – but how?