Researchers have captured extremely rare footage of polar bear cubs leaving their snowy dens for the first time. The footage, taken on the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard, shows a mother polar bear ...

Remote cameras were deployed in the Arctic mountains across nearly a decade; Valuable footage of moms and cubs emerging from dens shines light on elusive polar bear reproduction. Researchers from ...

Newborn polar bear cubs are currently snuggled in dens with ... reaching around 10kg—up to 20 times their birth weight—by the time they leave the den in spring. Polar bears emerge from their ...

Researchers have captured extremely rare footage of polar bear cubs leaving their ... Pregnant females give birth around early January and nurse their cubs through spring, when the family emerges ...

Polar bear cubs are born blind and weigh about a pound. The period after birth until they first climb out of the den is considered critical, as less than 50% of cubs make it to adulthood ...

The video “shines light on elusive polar bear reproduction” and “marks the first combination of satellite tracking collars with remote camera traps to answer questions about polar bear denning, which ...

Polar bear mothers in the Arctic generally give birth in early January around the start of the new year. The cubs are born completely blind, do not have their signature snow-colored fur ...

Polar bear cubs are incredibly ... The amount of time cubs spent outside their dens varied from minutes to hours. Some mothers also switched dens and moved their families. Polar bears typically give ...