A team of Canadian researchers have documented a rare care of a female polar bear adopting an unrelated cub who was ...

While researching a group of wild polar bears near the Churchill area of Manitoba, Canada, scientists witnessed a mother polar bear seemingly "adopting" a cub that isn't biologically hers, according ...

There is more than one reason for polar bears to adopt other cubs, Richardson said in an email statement. In some previous ...

Arctic researchers document “rare” and mysterious behaviour for the first time – and it’s crucial to this predator’s survival ...

Luckily, the Toledo Zoo and many others, are part of a breeding program designed to increase polar bear populations worldwide ...

With climate change dismantling polar bears' icy habitat, research suggests they are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a ...