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Polar bear fur also lacked a compound called squalene, the researchers found. Squalene is abundant in other marine mammals, and has properties that make ice stick to it easily.

Plungers ran into the cold Chesapeake Bay this weekend marking the 29th annual Special Olympics Maryland Polar Bear Plunge. Check out photos from the cold event.

Polar bears face mounting challenges in a changing, warming world, mostly related to their waning wintery wonderland habitats. But they may be increasingly infected with germs and parasites, too.

PLOS. "Polar bears' exposure to pathogens is increasing as their environment changes." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 23 October 2024. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 10 / 241023141836.htm>.

A polar bear enjoys, on average, five litters throughout her lifetime. They can breed at the age of four and leave their cubs after 2 to 2.5 years that is when they would wean and find another mate.

This handout photo shows a polar bear that was shot by the police after being considered a threat to people nearby, authorities said, in Westfjords, Iceland, Thursday Sept. 19, 2024.

Despite the name, Bruno was a female bear that lived somewhere between 100,000 and 70,000 years ago and its genome has helped scientists narrow in on this brown bear-polar bear divergence.