Researchers have captured extremely rare footage of polar bear cubs leaving their snowy dens for the first time. The footage, ...

The first months of a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) cub's life are spent in a den of ice, where the warm bodies of their mother and siblings protect its initially hairless body from the lethal Arctic ...

Polar bear cubs are incredibly cute — and amazingly elusive ... Polar bears typically give birth around New Year’s Day to blind, hairless cubs weighing in at around one pound. The cubs grow to about ...

Remote cameras were deployed in the Arctic mountains across nearly a decade; Valuable footage of moms and cubs emerging from ...

Blind, almost hairless, and weighing just 600g at birth ... we used remote cameras to study polar bear families as they emerged from their dens in Svalbard, Norway, gaining insight into the ...

hairless, and weigh just half a kilo (1.1 lb). They emerge from their birthing dens between February and April of each year. The research, published on International Polar Bear Day in the Journal ...

Mother bear with three cubs. Recorded using a remote camera as part of the maternal den research in Svalbard, Norway with Polar Bears International, the Norwegian Polar Institute, and the San ...