Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bear X33991 leading her two cubs along the ice. Researchers from Environment and Climate Change Canada and Polar Bears ...

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 ...

This is an extremely rare occurrence, researchers said — only 13 instances of the act have occurred in a group of 4,600 polar bears recorded over the last 45 years Researcher Evan Richardson said, "It ...

A photographer in Manitoba captured a rare sight on camera while tracking polar bears in November: a mother bear walking with a cub that was not biologically hers. Dave Sandford spotted this unique ...

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 ...

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 ...

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