She said the bear then approached the cross, sniffed around the base and then put his paw on it as if to climb up the main beam. “He stood up and put his paw on the cross and that’s the ...

A polar bear at the Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat has been dipping his paws into the art supplies. Henry, the nearly-2-year-old 600 lb bear, was introduced to "painting" by his keepers, who claim ...

What the team discovered was that all bears (except sun bears) have papillae on their paw pads, but that the papillae on polar bears were taller – up to 1.5 times.

United States: Alaska polar bear den disturbances part of ‘death by a thousand cuts,’ researcher says, Alaska Public Media DNA, north slope borough, polar bears, University of Idaho ...