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 ...

Researchers were surprised when they spotted an additional cub with this mother polar bear. Dave Sandford / Discover Churchill When female polar bear X33991 first emerged from her maternal den in ...

When a female polar bear located near Western Hudson Bay in Churchill, Manitoba emerged from her den last spring, researchers documented that she had one young cub by her side. The baby was tagged to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Each year on February 27, International Polar Bear Day draws attention to one of the Arctic's most powerful predators, the polar bearUrsus maritimus. These large marine mammals rely on sea ice to hunt ...