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Wildlife Photographer of the Year A photograph of a polar bear's cozy nap on a piece of sea ice has been selected as the winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award.

Benji previously worked as a wildlife researcher. You know the image well: A lone polar bear, stranded on a piece of floating sea ice. Sometimes the bear looks emaciated. It always seems to look sad.

"It's not enough time for a polar bear to get fat enough and ... way that these bears hunt using freshwater ice "might buy bears in that area a little bit more time, as pack ice continues to ...

“Pihoqahiak” means “ever-wandering one,” and is an Inuit name for the polar bear, a creature known to roam vast expanses of sea ice, sometimes plodding thousands of kilometers a year in ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear ... for several hours to get from ...

This experiment showed that the ice adhesion of unwashed polar bear fur is exceptionally low. While the often-accepted threshold for “icephobicity” is around 100 kPa, the unwashed fur measured as ...

Scientists have long hypothesized what would happen to polar bear populations in the Arctic as sea ice continues to melt ... suggest that polar bears obtain little benefit from foraging on land ...

21 Polar Bear ... the ice, trying to dissipate some of the excess heat,” Bechshoft says. Most of the time, the bears sleep in a shallow pit in the snow and use their front paw or a piece of ...

Then they compare the number of little DNA phrases that repeat ... on what may have happened to other polar bear genomes during periods of low ice—in this case, around 120,000 or 125,000 years ...