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In North America, grizzly and black bears are most common. Knowing what to do when encountering a bear varies between types.
We were camped in the Northwest Territories conducting research when our camp dog started barking. Then the polar bear ...
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 ...
The last fatal polar bear attack to occur in Alaska was in December 1990. Similar to Tuesday's, the 1990 attack was unprovoked. York said that in 1990, it had been a thin and hungry bear.
Paul R. Bear is a five-ton, 35-foot tall polar bear that sits outside Walser Polar Chevrolet in White Bear Lake. X close News Weather Watch Live Traffic Sports Search ...
In modern times, the biggest bear on record was a polar bear taken in 1960. It weighed over 2,200 pounds and stood nearly 12 feet on its hind legs. From our Expert ...
(WHTM) — Polar bears are extremely well adapted to their hostile environment. Under their translucent fur (it appears white because of a lack of pigment) and black skin (which helps them abso… ...
North America’s three bear species — black bears, grizzly bears and polar bears — don’t typically live in the same place. But in Wapusk National Park, on the west coast of Hudson Bay in ...
This past June, a polar bear entered the northern Siberian city of Norilsk, Russia — the first time one of the animals has entered the town in 40 years, Reuters reported.
Doesn’t look a day older than 602,000 It looked like we had the polar bear’s origin story nailed down. Genetic studies suggested that between 111 and 166 thousand years ago, a group of brown ...
Early in Candace Fleming’s POLAR BEAR (Neal Porter/Holiday House, 32 pp., $18.99, ages 4 to 8), we see the tip of the mother polar bear’s black nose poking out from the den near Canada’s ...