Before heading out to do their fieldwork, Dr. Stephanie Collins, Jing Lu and their team would scan the horizon, get tips from ...

Scientists studied bear fossils from Scotland's Bone Caves using isotopic data. Evidence revealed a marine diet, unlike ...

All this is crucial as climate change leads to shrinking ice coverage, which leaves polar bears’ preferred meal of seals further out of reach. Ice-free seasons have also extended, which means ...

From this, they concluded that polar bears lived in Scotland during the last Ice Age. “These bears appear to have lived almost exclusively on seafood," said study co-author Kate Britton.

Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far north populations.

Polar bears have been facing new survival challenges in recent years. That includes melting ice spurred by record global temperatures and increased exposure to plastic pollution. In a concerning ...

Researchers believe they have found possible evidence that polar bears lived in Scotland during the last ice age. Scientists previously suspected some of the remains found deep in Inchnadamph's ...

says that the range of the polar bears expanded further south during the last ice age they likely encountered the brown bears which are known to have been living in Scotland at the time.

Polar bears once roamed Britain, new analysis of ancient bones and fossils has revealed. Bones and teeth discovered in a Highland cave in Scotland show a fish-heavy diet eaten by the animals ...

Could polar bears have existed in Scotland during the ice age? Researchers and scientists believe they quite possibly did ...