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1,700-pound bears use tiny foot bumps to walk on ice

If you thought winter was cold where you live, just imagine how a polar bear must feel! These amazing animals live on coastal ...

Punch and his plushie, Moo Deng, and other zoo animals that melted hearts

Punch-kun, a baby macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo, became an internet star for his bond with an orangutan plush. There are many ...

Scientists 'surprised' by findings from new Arctic study on polar bears: 'People don't see it ... people don't care'

Research published in Scientific Reports analyzed over two decades of data from nearly 800 adult polar bears in the Barents Sea from 1995 to 2019. The team expected to see worsening body condition as ...
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Why polar bears are roaming farther from sea ice than ever?

Polar bears in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas are spending dramatically more time on land than at any point in the modern tracking record, with up to 50% of some populations now summering onshore ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How Do Researchers Identify Individual Bears in the Wild? They Could Soon Do It Through A.I. Facial Recognition Technology

Such tools could help scientists track population sizes or recognize aggressive animals that have attacked humans ...
KTBS 3

After Greenland, Arctic island Svalbard wary of great powers

There are no outward signs of jitters, at least not yet: people in Svalbard are going about their daily lives as normal ...