Polar bears aren't actually white.Turns out, they can come in all sorts of colors: yellow, gray, orange, and even green. That's because polar bear fur is transparent and hollow.When light strikes ...

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

White fur, blubbery skin, sharp claws ... Inuit people made sandals from polar bear pelts to move in almost complete silence across the ice. “I just thought: ‘Well, this is fascinating.

Neither albino nor polar bear, the spirit bear (also known ... who never hunted the animals or spoke of them to fur trappers. A white bear steps out of the tree cover onto a streamside rock.

“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 ...

Polar bears aren't actually white.Turns out, they can come in all sorts of colors: yellow, gray, orange, and even green. That's because polar bear fur is transparent and hollow.When light strikes ...

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 ...

Polar bears are well known for their snowy white coats, while Kodiak bears have shaggy brown fur. The Kodiak bear appears to have larger bones than the average polar bear, and polar bears have ...

From the tiny, silly-looking sun bear to the iconic polar bear, these animals are specially ... They all have stocky, fur-covered bodies; short legs; and a round head with a long snout.

Panda bears poop 40 times per day. When they're first born, bear cubs weigh less than 2 pounds (0.9 kg). Bears that snack on ...