Regular folks who care about wildlife generally know that climate change is bad for polar bears, but they have only vague ideas about the mechanics of it. We picture polar bears floating on ice floes ...

A wild female polar bear in Canada’s Churchill, Manitoba, had been observed and captured on camera with an adopted cub that is not her own. Adoption among polar bears isn’t unheard of, but it is ...

A mother polar bear has made the decision to adopt - a move that scientists say is extremely rare - and the new family was caught on video. Researchers had tagged the five-year-old mother, also known ...

Scientists made a surprise discovery this past fall when video evidence emerged of an extremely rare polar bear cub adoption in northern Manitoba. RELATED: Here's how animals survive the coldest ...

When scientists in Canada came across a female polar bear with two cubs in the fall, they made an unusual discovery: One of the young was not her own offspring but instead a rare documented example of ...

Researchers in northern Canada have observed a rare case of polar bear adoption, capturing video footage of a wild female bear caring for a cub that was not her own. "Cub adoption is relatively rare ...

"It's just nice to know that the bears are looking out for each other," said Evan Richardson, one of the researchers A mother polar bear in Northern Canada appears to have "adopted" a cub that is not ...

In a rarely documented case, a female polar bear was spotted interacting with two cubs, including one that wasn't her own, in the Churchill Wildlife Management Area, northern Canada.

Dec. 18 (UPI) --A team of Canadian researchers have documented a rare case of a female polar bear adopting an unrelated cub who was apparently orphaned. The nonprofit group Polar Bears International ...