Siku, a polar bear at Lincoln Park Zoo, developed allergies to various substances including human hair dander (Credit: ...

In conservation, the term "flagship species" is used to refer to animals that represent something bigger, like an entire ...

The loss of certain parasites and microbes in our guts may ... t represent a threat and to lessen their response. Siku the polar bear received a similar treatment, receiving a combination of ...

It has none of the polar bear’s soulfulness ... Scientists are also testing for diseases and parasites by studying wolverines killed by indigenous hunters, whose subsistence communities prize ...

The dog was once smacked into the air during a confrontation with a polar bear. Morgan Heim Guilbert ... they are and whether they’re plagued by parasites. During the week they spend here ...

For a group that makes up just 0.4 percent of the world’s population, identical twins have enthralled moviegoers.

Since WCCO first visited Churchill in 1993, the polar bear population here has been cut in half, according to estimates ...

Over the past few decades, the polar bear population in Canada’s western Hudson Bay has dropped dramatically. Archer: “There’s about half as many polar bears there in recent years, compared to the ...

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