The rare event marks the 13th known instance of adoption within this well-studied group of polar bears living in the western ...

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The footage of a bear caring for an adopted cub was captured during the annual polar bear migration along the Western Hudson ...

A mother polar bear has made the decision to adopt - a move that scientists say is extremely rare - and the new family was ...

Scientists were recently greeted with a most unexpected surprise when a polar bear mother and her cub were walking near ...

A wild female polar bear was recently filmed with a cub that’s not her own: a notably rare behavior that’s been determined to ...

It's only the 13th known case of adoption out of the 4,600 bears studied for nearly five decades in northern Canada.

A segment of the polar bear population is at risk of extinction should ice-free periods continue to get longer, researchers have determined using analysis of the sea ice as well as the health of the ...

A team of Canadian researchers have documented a rare care of a female polar bear adopting an unrelated cub who was ...