There’s hope that the deep freeze enveloping southeast Michigan –—and much of the country — will begin to thaw next week, but ...

Only four species of bear are hibernators: American Black Bear, Asiatic Black bear, Brown bear and Polar bear. These furry mammals don’t hibernate in the true sense because their body temperature only ...

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

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

Sure, throwing a snowball or diving in for a long-awaited snow angel is fun. But no one could have been more excited to wake up to a white February than the Oregon Zoo’s most winter-ready residents, ...