For nearly a decade, researchers have gathered camera footage from outside the dens of female polar bears and their cubs on ...

Understanding cubs’ activity when leaving their lairs could aid in supporting the polar bear’s survival.

The time lapse footage is the result of almost a decade of work monitoring the vulnerable predators' maternal behavior.

Researchers from Polar Bears International, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, the Norwegian Polar Institute, and the ...

In the frigid Arctic, polar bear mothers and their cubs emerge each spring from snow dens that have sheltered them through ...

Remote cameras in Norway have given us the first detailed look at polar bear cubs emerging from their dens, in videos more ...

Despite this clear motivation to get back to hunting seals on the sea ice, polar bear families will often hang out at the den ...

Polar bear mothers in the Arctic generally give birth in early January around the start of the new year. The cubs are born completely blind, do not have their signature snow-colored fur, and generally ...

Female polar bears give birth in December or early January when the cubs are blind, hairless and weigh just 0.5 kg.

Polar bears are born in the winter and spend their first several weeks of life in the den with their mother. Researchers note that less than half of the cubs will survive until adulthood, with the ...

The extremely rare footage was captured by remote cameras deployed in the Arctic mountains for nearly a decade.

Polar bear cubs were seen without their mothers only 5% of the time after the families emerged from their dens. (Image credit: Dmytro Cherkasov/Polar Bears International) Throughout the study ...