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Arctic specialists hunting on sea ice—sentinels of a warming world.
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Why can't polar bears live in Antarctica?
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (176+ words) Quite often, in a case of ‘polar confusion’, people envision polar bears rubbing shoulders with penguins in some unspecified icy waste. And with sea-ice cover in the Arctic Ocean at record lows, some wits might suggest transplanting starving bears to…...
$27,000 for feeding bears and coyotes: Fair fine or too steep?
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (114+ words) Montana Outdoor $27,000 for feeding bears and coyotes: Fair fine or too steep? A man in British Columbia was hit with a $27,000 penalty for intentionally feeding bears and coyotes near a popular walking trail and homes. Conservation officers say he placed…...
Cochrane polar bears taking centre stage at Toronto film festival
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (635+ words) COCHRANE — Diego Rojas Garcia had spent years learning the ins and outs of filmmaking, but nothing quite prepared him for the moment a massive polar bear suddenly appeared in front of him. Garcia was in Cochrane in January with his…...
The Polar Bear Once Kept at the Tower of London
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (83+ words) mentalfloss.com Of all royal pets, however, perhaps the most extraordinary belonged to the medieval English king Henry III—who is known to have kept a live polar bear at the Tower of London. This remarkable gesture—a nod to…...
Camera Captures Rare Glimpse of Polar Bears at Play
1+ week, 1+ day ago (210+ words) Two polar bears show off their playful side as they engage in a series of energetic encounters in a snowy landscape. The footage captures the majestic animals standing on their hind legs and batting at each other with their enormous…...
This Arctic predator rivals the polar bear, and it lives on the seafloor
1+ week, 1+ day ago (523+ words) In the icy waters of the Arctic, where most eyes are drawn to the imposing polar bear, scientists have uncovered a different kind of top hunter lurking below the surface. Out of sight but impossible to ignore, certain starfish have…...
Garbage and Polar Bears: A Better Solution?
1+ week, 5+ day ago (427+ words) Turning a polar bear attractant into a resource — Arctic communities in Greenland are part of a national network that converts waste into heat and electricity. We joined leaders from Churchill and the Nunavut Department of Environment to see how remote…...
How old are polar bears? Just when did these fearsome Arctic giants first appear?
1+ week, 5+ day ago (179+ words) The oldest known polar bear fossils hail from Svalbard and northern Norway and are dated at 115,000–130,000 years old, before the beginning of the last Ice Age. But some biologists think that polar bears diverged from brown bears as early as…...
Putin’s Arctic wildlife metaphor for the invasion of Ukraine appears to come from AI slop, a zoologist says — orcas attacking polar bears is a staple of fake clips flooding social media — Meduza
2+ week, 3+ hour ago (935+ words) Can you imagine, there are killer whales living right nearby, and they eat these bears like minnows. They simply attack in a pack and tear them to pieces. It’s all very interesting. Yes, yes, that’s the food chain. Children need…...
Point Defiance Zoo’s polar bear is leaving Tacoma
2+ week, 5+ day ago (396+ words) TACOMA, Wash. — Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium’s 5-year-old polar bear, Laerke, is moving. According to staff, she will move to an Association of Zoos and Aquariums-accredited facility in the Midwest later this fall so she can mate with another polar bear....