Quick Take Polar bears are showing rapid DNA changes in response to warming climates, a rare adaptation that may help ...

Polar bears are running out of ice and out of time, yet inside their cells something remarkable is happening. As the Arctic ...

“We found some variants that may have been selected in the last ~70,000 years (i.e. they were not in the fossil polar bears),” study co-author and University of Copenhagen evolutionary biologist ...

Researchers say some populations are activating “jumping genes” to survive rising temperatures. It’s both hopeful and ...

Polar bears in southern Greenland show rapid genetic changes linked to jumping genes due to climate change. (Image: Canva) Scientists have uncovered surprising genetic changes in polar bears. The ...

A polar bear feasts on a seal it captured in the receding tide along the Hudson Bay Lowlands. Ryan St. John peers through his binoculars on the shore of Hudson Bay near his home community of Arviat, ...

Polar bears are struggling to survive as sea ice dwindles. Scientists have now quantified how much climate change has drastically reduced the number of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson Bay, the ...