The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest.

Angela Imboden, art teacher for Thunder Mountain High School, used her winter break free time and fresh snow to make sculptures in her yard Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018.

Inuk artist and Sobey Art Award finalist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory’s latest work, Nannupugut! (We killed a polar bear!),was inspired by a close encounter with the animal whose skin serves as ...

Happy International Polar Bear Day! Let’s celebrate! Anne Collins Goodyear co-director, Bowdoin College Museum of Art Illustrations: Polar Bears, 1970, graphite on tracing paper. Museum Purchase, ...

Another polar bear, one of the three mascots for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, then flew as the zero-g indicator for Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio and JAXA ...

Angela Imboden rubbed her gloved hand around the large bear’s muzzle. It was starting to take on a more defined shape. The Thunder Mountain High School art teacher used Thursday’s fresh ...