How Old Is That Polar Bear? The Answer Is in Its Blood. So-called “epigenetic clocks” are helping wildlife biologists estimate the ages of animals far more easily than in the past.

The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo announced in a news release on Tuesday, July 23, that one of its 7-year-old male polar bears died by drowning after sustaining a 'crushing injury' to his trachea ...

The seven-year-old Baffin died at the Calgary Zoo on Friday after roughhousing in a pond with another male bear, the eight-year-old Siku, while visitors to the exhibit watched. Baffin submerged in ...

She’s the new 22-year-old polar bear who recently arrived at the Detroit Zoo. Haley was born on Nov. 15, 2002, and comes from the Memphis Zoo, where she had been living since she was 4 years old.

Polar bear equipped with camera collar reveals details of life in the melting Arctic 04:34. ... the bear was very close to a summer house. There was an old woman in there." The owner, who was ...

A polar bear at the Calgary Zoo died in a tragic accident while playing with his fellow polar bear companion, ... the zoo said their 7-year-old polar bear named Baffin died Friday.

Lee, a 25-year-old polar bear, came to the zoo in 2018. He was moved to the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky in 2020 to give other polar bears sufficient space, then returned to the Columbus Zoo in 2023.

A polar bear carefully uses stepping stones along the shore of a frozen pond with very thin ice in the Churchill Wildlife Management Area in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, Nov. 1, 2021.