For nearly a decade, researchers have gathered camera footage from outside the dens of female polar bears and their cubs on ...

The study used GPS collar tracking on female polar bears to track location, temperature and activity. This study further aids ...

Understanding cubs’ activity when leaving their lairs could aid in supporting the polar bear’s survival.

The time lapse footage is the result of almost a decade of work monitoring the vulnerable predators' maternal behavior.

Researchers from Polar Bears International, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, the Norwegian Polar Institute, and the ...

Despite this clear motivation to get back to hunting seals on the sea ice, polar bear families will often hang out at the den ...

Polar bears are born in the winter and spend their first several weeks of life in the den with their mother. Researchers note that less than half of the cubs will survive until adulthood, with the ...

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, and generally ...

Female polar bears give birth in December or early January when the cubs are blind, hairless and weigh just 0.5 kg.

The extremely rare footage was captured by remote cameras deployed in the Arctic mountains for nearly a decade.

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 cubs were seen without their mothers only 5% of the time after the families emerged from their dens. (Image credit: Dmytro Cherkasov/Polar Bears International) Throughout the study ...