For example, the polar bear has five legs at the 6-second mark. At another point, its front paw wipes through its handler's arm before morphing into a bear paw that resembles a human hand.

Polar bears are developing horrific wounds on their paws due to changing ice conditions in the Arctic, a new study reports. In the most severe cases, researchers describe two bears with crippling, ...

Population assessments have revealed that polar bears in Greenland are suffering from crippling wounds on their paws due to wet snow that gets stuck to the pads and freezes into blocks.

Polar bears are developing ... dinner plate-size balls of ice stuck to their feet. Beneath the ice balls, the bears' paw pads ...

Polar bears in some parts of the high Arctic are developing ice buildup and related injuries to their feet, apparently due to changing sea ice conditions in a warming Arctic. While surveying the ...

Polar bears found to have diverged from brown bears just 70,000 years ago Sep 18, 2024 A study of polar bear paw papillae shows how they maintain traction on ice ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The researchers say they’re unsure how the injuries will affect polar bear populations, but they speculate the injuries could reduce the ...

Between 2012 and 2022, Laidre and co-author Stephen Atkinson, a wildlife veterinarian, studied two populations of polar bears ...