You probably know polar bears as the big white animals roaming the Arctic, but there’s a lot about them that doesn’t make it into the usual stories. They deal with extreme cold, hunt in ways no other ...

A momma bear’s tiny cubs hitched a ride on her back as she swam across a Massachusetts reservoir to an island, video shows. An angler who spotted the bear family took videos and shared them to ...

Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) give birth in dens that they dig up deep beneath the snow. After birth, the cubs remain in the den for many months and grow as much as 20 times their birth weight ...

The team found that polar bear families in Svalbard emerged from their dens around March 9 every year. They were found to stay in and around the den site for around 12 days after that.

Past research has shown that how long polar bear mothers remain at their dens impacts cubs' odds of survival. Yet why they stick around for so long and what they're doing remains poorly understood ...

Rare Footage Of Baby Polar Bears Emerging From Den Captured By Scientists Female polar bears give birth in December or early January when the cubs are blind, hairless and weigh just 0.5 kg. Edited ...

The recording also revealed the degree to which cubs depend on their mothers. Video showed that the cubs emerged alone from their dens only 5 percent of the time. The Svalbard polar bear mothers also ...

Remote cameras in Norway have given us the first detailed look at polar bear cubs emerging from their dens, in videos more than 10 years in the making. The first months of a polar bear (Ursus ...

To learn more about the process, the biologists placed cameras outside 13 known polar bear den sites in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago at the intersection of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans ...

It shows a mother polar bear walking through the frozen landscape — then a cub pops up out of the den and slips and slides over the ice toward her. As the cub reaches its mom, another two emerge ...

It shows a mother polar bear walking through the frozen landscape — then a cub pops up out of the den and slips and slides over the ice toward her. As the cub reaches its mom, another two emerge ...