BERLIN -- Knut, the Berlin zoo's young celebrity polar bear who died suddenly Saturday, will be stuffed and put on display at the zoo's museum of natural history, sources tell CBS News.

Knut shot to fame after his mother rejected him at birth and he had to be hand-reared by zookeeper Thomas Dörflein. Knut was the first polar bear to be born and raised at the Berlin Zoo in 33 years.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. BERLIN-- A polar bear died and the zoo's director decided to stuff its body and put it on display in a museum. (The director ...

He was Knut the polar bear, the star of the Berlin Zoo. It turns out that Knut was killed by an autoimmune disorder called anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, a kind of brain inflammation.

More than four years ago, Knut the polar bear drowned as hundreds of horrified zoo visitors watched. Scientists now know what led to the beloved animal’s seizure, and ultimately death.

BERLIN — The sudden death four years ago of Knut, the celebrity Berlin Zoo polar bear who ended up on the cover of Vanity Fair, shocked his fans around the world and posed a riddle for ...

A fight has broken out over the remains of Knut, the Berlin Zoo's beloved polar bear. Knut — abandoned by his mother, and raised by humans — died last month at age four. Zookeepers now plan to ...

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"This is a plastic form, true to the original," says a Berlin Natural History Museum rep It was said when he fatally drowned at age 4 in 2011 that Knut the polar bear was immortal – and so he is ...

Berlin's star polar bear Knut met another polar bear for the first time on Tuesday. And aside from an initial round-house delivered by the visiting Gianna, zookeepers pronounced the date a success.